Wright v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1979 · most notably The "City of Panama" (1879), Indiana Car Co. v. Parker (1885)
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Taber v. Hutson · Ramsden v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad v. Baum · Fisher v. Hamilton · Cox v. Vanderkleed
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tice cines lion involved is not one of negligence on llie part of the defendants. The act charged against them is in itself unlawful; not the act of blasting and quarrying rock, but the act of casting fragments of rock upon the plaintiff, to his injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Day““That the servant is also liable for his own carelessness and negligence, and that the master and servant may be joined in the same action, are principles well settled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.