Morrell v. Gobeil’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1999 · most notably Wisutskie v. Malouin (1936), Rawle v. McIlhenny (1934)
3 federal appellate · 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Carney v. Concord Street Railway · Bennett v. Larose · Guevin v. Manchester Street Railway · Pitman v. Merriman · Ingerson v. Grand Trunk Railway
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But although [earning] capacity is thus made material, it is not declared to be the measure of damages. The loss to the estate by the destruction of that capacity is the measure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the decedent was a drunken loafer, who though physically able probably would never do a day’s work, there would be no loss to his estate if his earning capacity were cut off.”
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.