Lattin v. Gillette’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand (1971), 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. (1944)
3 federal appellate · 91 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 John Wilcox and Thomas Wilcox v. The Executors of Kemp Plummer · Chipman v. Morill & Webster · Crawford v. Gaulden · Troup v. Executors of Smith · Northrop v. . Hill
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘liability’ * * * is the condition in which an individual is placed after a breach, of Ms contract, or a violation of any obligation resting .upon him.” 18 Am. & Eng. Ency. (2d. Ed.) note p. 848.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““They ‘negligently, and unskillfully conducted such examination, and did not truthfully report the condition of the title to the plaintiff’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Responsibility; the state of one who is bound in law and justice to do something which may be enforced by action.””
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.