Denver Tramway Co. v. Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1972
1 federal appellate · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on French v. Deane · Jacksonville Street Railway Co. v. Chappell · Republican Publishing Co. v. Conroy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under our system of pleading we have but one form of action, and when the pleader has stated the facts out of which his cause of action arises and supports that cause by proper proof, he may recover for the tort, even though he has stated facts which at the common law would of necessity make his action one in assumpsit and not in case. In other words, we are not willing to admit the existence of those technical distinctions which at the common law determined what action was brought and what relief the plaintiff might have.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reyer v. Blaisdell
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.