Helling v. Schindler’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 113 - Ault v. International Harvester Co. (1974), 18 Cal. 2d 798 - Hatfield v. Levy Brothers (1941)
40 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 Sappenfield v. Main Street & Agricultural Park Railroad · Cregan v. . Marston · Turner v. Hearst · James v. James · Webber v. . Piper
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule does not apply to defects arising in the daily use of an appliance, which are not of a permanent character and do not require the help of skillful mechanics to repair, but which may easily be and usually are repaired by the workmen, and to repair which proper and suitable materials are supplied.””
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.