Wade v. Leroy’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 34 · 1857
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007 · most notably Vicksburg v. Putnam (1886), District of Columbia v. Woodbury (1890)
8 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Kendall v. Stokes · Driggs v. Dwight · Squier v. Gould · Hutchinson v. Granger
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Special damages are such as result from some cause not notified to the defendant by the very description of the injury complained of, as necessarily resulting from it. Any fact which rendered it more hurtful to the plaintiff than it would have been to any other person, under the same circumstances set forth, is a special damage; and, consequently, it cannot be given in evidence, unless specially set forth in the declaration. The object of this rule is to prevent surprise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In an action against the owners of a ferry boat, for personal injuries sustained by the negligence of its officers, it was held that the plaintiff might show that he was engaged in a particular business, and had been incapacitated from attending to it as exhibiting the extent of the injury, and that it had occasioned expense, suffering and loss of time which had value to him, although the nature of his occupation was not set forth in the declaration.” ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the evidence tends to support any issue between the parties, or has a direct connection with other evidence competent to maintain the averments of the declaration,— either to illustrate its meaning or to ascertain its probative effect,- — it cannot be rejected as impertinent, or as founded upon matter that does not appear in the pleadings of the cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.