Veeder v. . Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1978 · most notably Ellison v. Georgia Railroad (1891), Chase v. Curtis (1885)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Riggs v. . Pursell · Merchants' Bank of New Haven v. Bliss · Belmont v. Erie Railway Co. · Park v. Carnley · International Life Assurance Co. v. Sweetland
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be said to be composed of the right of the plaintiff and the obligation, duty or wrong of the defendant; and these combined, it is sufficiently accurate to say, constitute the cause of action.” (Page 160.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bruner v. Martin
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.