North v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1823
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2012
3 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are, undoubtedly, some injuries which so peculiarly adhere to the person of him who has suffered them, as to preclude an assignment of his claim to compensation for them, so as to make him a witness; such, for instance, as slander, assault and battery, criminal conversation with the party’s wife.... But this does not hold with respect to a trespass committed against a party’s goods, the remedy for which survives to the personal representative ...; which clearly shows that such a cause of action is separable from the person of the owner, and it cannot be doubted, that it would pass by a commission of bankruptcy; for, before actual recovery of damages for the trespass, the property in the goods themselves, remains in the original owner or those who represent him.”
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.