Conway v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.2d 611 · 1940
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007 · most notably Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1952), 56 Ill. 2d 372 - Cunis v. Brennan (1974)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Baltimore & Carolina Line, Inc. v. Redman · Shaw, Admr. v. Moore · Massachusetts Protective Ass'n v. Mouber · Hall v. Royce · Dessereau v. Walker
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demanded of a person by an occasion is the resultant of three factors: the likelihood that his conduct will injure others, taken with the seriousness of the injury if it happens, and balanced against the interest which he must sacrifice, or the cost of the precaution he must take, to avoid the risk.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is plain * * * that we cannot properly devolve the entire responsibility for a decision upon a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.