Swift & Co. v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.2d 170 · 1939
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Continental Collieries, Inc. v. Shober (1942), Simms v. Andrews (1941)
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 Newbern v. . Leary
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The last clear chance doctrine is but one of the rules of law applied in determining whose negligence is to be deemed the proximate cause of an injury complained of; and there would seem to be no occasion for pleading it where the negligence of the defendant relied on for the application of the doctrine is pleaded as the proximate cause of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice v. Gideon
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.