Wever v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably O'Day v. Webb (1972), Anderson v. Ceccardi (1983)
8 federal appellate · 39 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 127 Ohio St. 469 - Hamden Lodge No. 517 v. Ohio Fuel Gas Co. · 130 Ohio St. 567 - Universal Concrete Pipe Co. v. Bassett · 147 Ohio St. 293 - Masters v. New York Central Rd. · Francis v. Bieber · 152 Ohio St. 463 - Porter v. Toledo Terminal Rd.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terms ‘contributory negligence’ and ‘assumption of risk’ are not synonymous. The former is based on carelessness and the latter on venturousness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Higgins“It is only when reasonable minds could come to but one conclusion that the issue [of assumption of risk] becomes one for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) consent to or acquiescence in (2) an appreciated or known (3) risk....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briney v. Sears
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.