Wright v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2008
12 state decisions
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 O'Brien v. Cunard Steamship Co. · Goldnamer v. O'Brien · State v. Pickett · Nicholls v. Colwell · Neilsen v. Hovander
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the beating is excessively disproportionate to the consent, given or implied, or where the party injured is exposed to loss of life or great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davies v. Butler
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.