Butler v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1986
6 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 53 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on 81 So. 2d 478 - Sproule v. Nelson · Police and Firemen's Ins. Asso. v. Hines · Wharton, Jr. v. Day · 62 So. 2d 591 - Adams v. Royal Exchange Assur. · Garrett v. Faust
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, you must reduce any award you may make by the amount that the negligence, if any, of the plaintiff contributed to his injury.”
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.