Gonchar v. Kelson’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Kostyal v. Cass (1972), Greeley v. Cunningham (1933)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 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 Bourne v. Whitman · Hoffman v. City of Bristol · Dudley v. Northampton Street Railway Co. · Farrell v. Waterbury Horse R. R. Co. · Chase v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule which is applicable to actions for negligence based upon the violation of a statutory duty is to all intents and purposes the same as the rule applicable to actions for negligence based upon a violation of a common-law duty. Where there is no duty, there can be no negligence.”
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.