Lewis v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 1981 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. (1954), 54 Cal. 2d 339 - Peterson v. Lamb Rubber Co. (1960)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Thomas v. . Winchester · Coughtry v. . Globe Woolen Co. · Wellington v. Downer Kerosene Oil Co. · Heizer v. Kingsland & Douglass Manufacturing Co. · Pastene v. Adams
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that such articles are in general not dangerous would seem to enhance the wrong of representing one to be safe for use when known to be really unsafe, for the danger is thus rendered more insidious.”
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.