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Bixby v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis

1876

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
13
states following
April 2008
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Lake Shore Ry Co v. Prentice (1893), Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Gardiner Dairy Co. (1908)

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 states

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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 Goddard v. Grand Trunk Railway · Ghilain v. Couture · Hawes v. Knowles

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]f . . . the defendant has been malicious, the rule of damages will be more liberal . . . instead of awarding damages only for those matters which are capable of exact pecuniary valuation, they [the jury] may take into consideration all the circumstances of aggravation . . . and endeavor ... to award such damages by way of compensation ... as the plaintiff on the whole ought to receive and the defendant ought to pay.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Johnsen v. Fernald
  2. “considerations which cannot be made the subject of exact pecuniary compensation ... [such as] mental distress and vexation, what in common language might be spoken of as offences to the feelings, insult, degradation, [and] offences against honest pride....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Kassel v. Gannett Co.

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.