Staley v. Jameson’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably Crabb v. Swindler, Administratrix (1959), Nichols v. Nold (1953)
5 federal appellate · 22 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.
““The appellees insist that the action is for a personal injury to the appellant, resulting from the alleged unskillfulness and negligence of the appellees. The opinion of the court below in general term is copied into the transcript. From that we' learn that} its ruling was based upon the theory that the gravamen of the action was the personal injuries resulting to the appellant from the omission of the appellees to exercise the care and use the skill in the discharge of their undertaking to care for his broken arm, which the law required of them upon the facts of the case, and not on a contract to properly treat the arm as surgeons. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think the action was upon the contract. That a breach of the contract should result in impairing and destroying the efficiency of the appellant’s arm does not show that the gravamen of the action is an injury to his person within the meaning of section 211, 2 G. & H. 158” (section ‘294 Burns’ Statutes 1901).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.