Comminge & Geisler v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Sharyland Water Supply Corp. v. City of Alton (2011), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Case (1910)
36 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the magazine and its contents afforded sufficient ground for plaintiff’s apprehension and alarm, and that it satisfactorily appears from the evidence that the magazine is a ‘thing that worked hurt, inconvenience, and damage’ to plaintiff in both his person and property, in violation of his right to enjoy his property free from such hurt, inconvenience, and damage. Rhodes v. Dunbar, 57 Pa. St. 290; 4 Wait’s Act. and Def. 731, 732, 749, 773.””
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.