Hegerich v. . Keddie’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 1951 · most notably Meekin v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad (1900), Sullivan v. Associated Billposters & Distributors of United States & Canada (1925)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Zabriskie v. . Smith · Littlewood v. . Mayor, Etc., of New York · Needham v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. · Cregin v. . Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad Co. · Haight v. . Hayt
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as a recovery of the tax charged to have been illegally levied and collected is sought, it is practically an action in assumpsit for money had and received. Beyond that nothing is suggested but a tort, and a tort by which the estate of the defendant was not increased and the estate of the plaintiff damaged only as an indirect consequence of' the alleged wrongful aet of the defendant. Such a tort does not, either at common law or by the statutes of Virginia, survive the death of the wrongdoer.””
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.