Messler v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
3 district · 16 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 PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. · Harding Glass Co. v. Jones · I.M.A., Inc. v. Rocky Mountain Airways, Inc. · Mince v. Butters
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct purposefully committed which the actor must have realized as dangerous, done heedlessly and recklessly, without regard to consequences, or of the rights and safety of others, particularly the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“consciously conspire and deliberately pursue a common plan or design”
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.