Ross v. Hartman’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.2d 14 · 1943
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 8 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Rappaport v. Nichols (1959), 43 Cal. 2d 60 - Richards v. Stanley (1954)
104 federal appellate · 8 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Martin v. Herzog · Rosenberg v. Murray · Danzansky v. Zimbolist · DeHaen v. Rockwood Sprinkler Co. of Massachusetts · Slater v. T. C. Baker 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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of an ordinance * * * leaving a car unlocked might not be negligent in some circumstances, although in other circumstances it might be both negligent and a legal or `proximate' cause of resulting accident.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule we are adopting tends to make the streets safer by discouraging the hazardous conduct which the ordinance forbids. It puts the burden of the risk, as far as may be, upon those who create it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It (the law) puts the burden of risk . . . upon those who created it . . . it is fairer to hold him responsible for the harm than to deny a remedy to the innocent victim.”
3 later decisions 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.