Silver v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Trivelloni-Lorenzi v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1987), Abell v. Potomac Insurance (1988)
10 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2315 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Home Ins Co v. Dick · Walker v. Sheldon · Leimgruber v. Claridge Associates, Ltd.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]e who conspires with another person to commit an intentional or willful act is answerable, in solido, with that person, for the damage caused by such act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“created a special relationship with plaintiff [diamond merchant] when he undertook to aid the plaintiff in the sale of his merchandise,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Ward · Vining v. Ward“... exemplary damages, even if proper in a given case, are not allowed as a matter of right. The decision to award punitive damages, as well as the amount of such damages, rests within the sound discretion of the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boulmay v. Dubois
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.