Freedman v. Hurwitz’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Dean v. Hershowitz (1935), Landrum v. Roddy (1943)
2 district · 39 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 Stout v. Lewis · Potz v. Williams · Miner v. Connecticut River Railroad · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Lewis · Worden v. Gore-Meenan Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“their position as guests of the defendant riding upon the rear seat of the car, the hour of the night and the place where they were, with the other surrounding circumstances, it does not appear that there was any course which it could reasonably be said they ought to have adopted to avoid such danger as there was in the situation. The jury could not reasonably have found that by continuing in the car they voluntarily chose to assume the risk within the true meaning of the doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had assumed the risk of injury incident to traveling with him.”
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.