Austin v. . Rawdon’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1963 · most notably Holt Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Arthur Jordan Co. (1900), Kerr Steamship Co. v. Radio Corp. of America (1927)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the form -of all actions at law and suits in equity, and all the forms of pleading existing before the Code, were thereby abolished, and it is sufficient to state in a plain and concise manner the facts constituting the cause of action, yet the substantive distinctions between- actions on contract and those founded on tort still exist.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockrill 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.