Cram v. Laconia’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 1983 · most notably Bacich v. Board of Control (1943), Nelson Et Ux. v. State Highway Board (1938)
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Coster v. Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty · Davis v. County Commissioners · Dantzer v. Indianapolis Union Railway Co. · In re Washington Road Co. · Stanwood v. City of Malden
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.
“a peculiar and special damage not common to the public”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.