Depue v. Flatau’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Jackson v. City of Joliet (1983), Palace Bar, Inc. v. Fearnot (1978)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Cappier
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to a higher degree of care than those who are present by mere sufferance.”
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.