Willy v. . Mulledy’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably City of Rochester v. . Campbell (1890), Paine Lumber Co. v. Neal (1917)
3 federal appellate · 90 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.
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here was, then, an absolute duty imposed upon the defendant by statute to provide a fire escape ... It is a general rule that whenever one owes another a duty, whether such duty be imposed by voluntary contract or by statute, a breach of such duty causing damage gives a cause of action. Duty and right are correlative; and where a duty is imposed, there must be a right to have it performed. [Id. at 314.]”
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.