Bair v. Heibel’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1936 · most notably Stafford v. Adams (1905), McClaugherty v. Rogue River Electric Co. (1914)
4 federal appellate · 21 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. India Manufacturing Co. · Settle v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Lore v. American Manufacturing Co. · Blanton v. Dolb · Pauck v. St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems there is no rule of the common law requiring dangerous machinery to be fenced or guarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuhn v. Lusk
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.