Ford v. Sturgis’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.2d 253 · 1926
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Goldberg v. Lumber Mutual Casualty Insurance (1948), 49 Cal. 2d 720 - Dow v. Holly Manufacturing Co. (1958)
16 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.
Relationships
Relies on MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Savings Bank v. Ward · Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Deselms · Coughtry v. . Globe Woolen Co. · Huset v. J. I. Case Threshing Mach. 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the negligence of a contractor in constructing a building will not render him liable to a third person, who is injured in consequence thereof after the work has been completed and accepted by the owner of the building.”
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.