Douglass v. Loftus’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1962 · most notably Sharp v. Sharp (1941), Fuchs v. Parsons Construction Company (1958)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Richmond v. Irons · State of Louisiana Folsom v. Mayor Etc of the City of New Orleans · Matteson v. Dent · Chase v. Curtis · Freeland v. Williams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether a petition states a canse of action <3® contractu or ex delicto it must be considered in its entirety, but with special reference to' its prominent and leading allegations. Where the averments make it doubtful whether the action is on contract or in tort every intendment must be made in favor of construing it as an action on contract.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In 1903 all provisions for the enforcement of stockholders’ liability were repealed, and at the general election of 1906, section 2, of article 12 of the constitution was amended, abrogating the double liability of stockholders, and leaving each stockholder liable only to the amount of stock owned by him.” (Douglass v. Loftus, Adm’x, 85 Kan. 720, 723 , 119 Pac. 74 .)”
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.