Avery v. Spicer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
7 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Veits v. City of Hartford (1948), City of Bristol v. Tilcon Minerals, Inc. (2007)
7 district · 53 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 Plumb v. Griffin · Parker v. Griswold · Knapp v. Tidewater Coal Co. · Smith v. Wunderlich · Eldridge v. Gorman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The authorities, as far as we have observed them, hold, with substantial unanimity, that statutes similar to ours do not give a new and independent right of action, and that their sole office is to prescribe the measure of damages in cases where compensatory damages would, in the absence of the statute, be recoverable.”
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.