Severinson v. Nerby’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2003
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Zuber v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Leonard v. North Dakota Co-Operative Wool Marketing Ass'n · Heckman v. Warren · Lostegaard v. Bauer · Mischel v. Vogel
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘volunteer’ is one who does, or who on his own initiative undertakes to do, something which he is not legally or morally obligated to do and which is not in pursuance or protection of his own personal interests. A volunteer comes under the rule that one who volunteers to act for another cannot recover for personal injuries as a servant of such other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Negligence on the part of a defendant is never presumed merely from proof of the accident, but must be affirmatively proved.”
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.