Reader v. Ottis’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Carney v. Dewees (1949), Nelson v. Nason (1961)
1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Feneff v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Brown v. Thayer · De Carvalho v. . Brunner · Mark v. . Fritsch · Burnham v. . Butler
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where two or more tort-feasors, by concurrent acts of negligence which, although disconnected, yet, in combination, inflict injury, all are liable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kump v. Weikert
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.