Ruerat v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably State v. Hayes (1941), Saphir v. Neustadt (1979)
6 federal appellate · 56 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 Hoyt v. City of Danbury · Stebel v. Connecticut Co. · Sliwowski v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Levidow v. Starin
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinctive function of the rule is to permit an inference of negligence from proof of the injury and the physical agency inflicting it, without proof of facts pointing to the responsible human cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mere proof that her property was destroyed by fire,”
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.