Canton v. Grinnell’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1948
4 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 Smith v. Webster · Fitzsimmons v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury were instructed that the defendant would be only liable for those acts which were committed by the two truckmen in doing those things necessary in getting the piano. This instruction sufficiently guarded defendants’ rights” — and cited as sustaining that proposition Smith v. Webster, supra.”
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.