Sipple v. . the State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 1956 · most notably Ferdinand v. Agricultural Ins. Co. of Watertown, NY (1956), Smith v. . State of New York (1920)
52 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Lewis v. . the State · Wohlfahrt v. . Beckert · People Ex Rel. Devlin v. Conover
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act was conceived in the plainest principles of justice, and was intended to afford a substantial and not a delusive remedy to parties who might be injured by the careless and negligent conduct of those who were intrusted by the state with the execution of its work.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Jones
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.