Sandel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 1974 · most notably Atchison v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. (1945), 96 Cal. App. 2d 681 - Gibson v. Garcia (1950)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Carter v. Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co. · First Presbyterian Church v. Elliott · Berger v. Charleston Consolidated Railway, Gas & Electric Co. · Graham v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, in application, the rule may need explanation; for instance, it is not necessary to show that a person charged with negligence should have foreseen the particular consequences or injury that resulted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general statement of the law, the request was correct. The same request was charged in Miles v. Telegraph Co. , 55 S.C. 403 , 420 ; 33 S.E., 493 , and approved by this Court.”
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.