Nickerson v. Tirrell’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1972
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 Carleton v. Franconia Iron & Steel 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is a defect which is known to him, or which, by the use of ordinary care and diligence, should be known to him, he is guilty of negligence, and liable to the person who, using due care, is injured thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Havemeyer
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.