Allen v. . Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1975 · most notably Armstrong & Latta v. City of Philadelphia (1915), 12 E.H. Smith 34 - Jackson Architectural Iron Works v. Hurlbut (1899)
1 federal appellate · 74 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In many cases interest on the value from the time of the wrongful taking would be a proper measure. It would be generally in all cases where the property detained was merchandise kept for sale, grain, and all other articles of property useful only for sale or consumption. In such eases, if the owner recover the interest on the value of his property from the time he was deprived of it, he will generally have a complete indemnity, unless the property has depreciated in value, in which case the depreciation must be added to the interest on the value, taken as it was before the depreciation, and the two items will .furnish the amount of the damage. This damage, together with the property or its value at the timé of the trial, will give the owner as complete an indemnity as the law is generally able to give any person seeking redress for a wrong. But the same measure of damages would not generally furnish the owner an indemnity in case the property claimed had a value for use, or, in other words, a usable value, such as horses, cows, carriages, and boats. In such case the direct damage which the owner suffers is the loss of the use, and the value of the use should be the measure of damage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crockett v. Miller
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.