Nelson v. Peterman’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1953
9 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · Stacey v. Emery · Spaulding Mfg. Co. v. Holiday · Dunnington v. Loeser · El Reno Gas & Electric Co. v. Spurgeon
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not enough that ‘he fairly tell- all he knows,’ if he closes his ears and eyes to all he could or should have known.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Frey
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.