Legg v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet (1974), 56 Ill. 2d 423 - Murphy v. Martin Oil Co. (1974)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Needham v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. · Harding v. Town of Townsend · Westcott v. Central Vermont R. R.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“loss of service, and compensation for pain and suffering”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the recovery of damages for a bodily hurt or injury”
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.