Backus v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1986
15 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Papooshek v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad · Blondel v. St. Paul City Railway Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“immaterial if, as a matter of fact, the plaintiff would have been unable to have placed the insurance, even if notice had been given. The failure to give the notice, in such a case, would not be the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s damages; hence it would be immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melin v. Johnson
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.