Shayne v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2018
4 federal appellate · 17 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.
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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.
“Contributory negligence is conduct on the part of a plaintiff which falls below the standard to which he should conform for his own protection, and which, as a legally contributory cause, cooperates with the negligence of defendant in bringing about the plaintiff's harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nesbit v. Everette
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.