Tower v. Camp’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1990
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Sullivan v. Krivitsky · Shea v. Hemming · Morris v. Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each plaintiff is suing these defendants, as each had the right to do, although the negligence of a third party might have contributed to the injury. Each tort-feasor can be sued separately; Shea vs. Hemming, 97 Conn. 149 , 155 .... Sullivan vs. Krivitsky, 100 Conn. 508 .... and since the action may be so brought, no allegations are required in the complaint except such as shall properly set forth the liability of the defendant sued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Due care is care proportioned to any given situation, its surrounding peculiarities and hazards. It may and often does require extraordinary care.”
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.