Piper v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2011
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Iacino v. Brown · Ankeny v. Talbot · Independent Lumber Co. v. Leatherwood · Hertz Driv-Ur-Self System, Inc. v. Hendrickson · McBride v. Woods
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The instruction on unavoidable accident given by the trial court was erroneous, it tended not only to divert the minds of the jurors from the decisive issues of negligence and contributory negligence, but suggested that under the evidence the parties might be held blameless for reasons other than their freedom from negligence or contributory negligence. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the instant case does not have in it the factor of an unforeseeable and uncontrollable happening”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kendrick v. Pippin
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.