Green v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1970
20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They [tlie commissioners] were to exercise their judgment honestly, and lo do the work, of course, with proper care and caution, and' not maliciously, oppressively, or arbitrarily, to the injury of the rights of other persons. But. keeping within the scope of these powers, they are not to be held liable for mere errors of judgment, nor for injuries to others resulting from the work itself, if properly performed and with due care. Otherwise, as remarked by Lord Kenyon, every statute of this character ‘would give rise to an Infinity of actions,’ ” citing Governor, etc., v. Meredith, 4 Term R. 796.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Berkey
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.