Pearson v. Zable’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1961
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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What they did having been done under authority of law, they are not responsible for injury resulting to the appellants in consequence of the failure to provide an outlet for the water accumulating in the street, or for the consequences resulting from it. It was not their duty, but the duty of the city to provide plans for the work, and to guard against unnecessary injury to property.””
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.