Ayers v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 4 district · 241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 393 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Pocono International Raceway, Inc. v. Pocono Produce, Inc. (1983), 324 Pa. Super. 123 - Cathcart v. Keene Industrial Insulation (1984)
41 federal appellate · 4 district · 241 state decisions — followed in 27 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Bell Telephone Co. · Foley v. the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Co. · Lewey v. H. C. Fricke Coke Co. · Burton v. Tribble · Necho Coal Co. v. Denise Coal Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 393 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a possible tort [has] inflict[ed] a damage which is physically objective and ascertainable.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every suit hereafter brought to recover damages for injury wrongfully done to the person, in case where the injury does not result in death, must be brought within two years from the time when the injury was done and not afterwards; .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““As for the statute of limitations, there seems to be no dispute here that the statute runs, on causes arising from subsurface injury, from the time of discovery of the cause of the harm or the time when the cause of the harm reasonably should have been discovered, whichever is earlier. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.