Pollock & Co. v. Gantt’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Lake Shore Ry Co v. Prentice (1893), Burns v. Campbell (1882)
49 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 Donnell v. Jones · Kirksey v. Jones · Culver v. Hill · Bolling v. Tate · Higgins v. Mansfield
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And special damages can be recovered only when they are not too remote, and are specially counted on and claimed in the complaint.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walling v. Fields · Irwin v. Cotney
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.