Pollard v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Giambra v. Kelsey (2007), Porter v. Galarneau (1996)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Gannon v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co. · Maki v. Murray Hospital · 22 Ill. 2d 305 - Gannon v. C., M., ST. P. & P. RY. CO. · Krohmer v. Dahl · Continental Can Company, Inc., a Corporation v. Bernard F. Horton and Leroy L. Wade & Son, Inc., a Corporation
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extraordinary hazards associated with scaffolds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" Construction of scaffolds. All scaffolds erected in this state for use in the erection, repair, alteration, or removal of buildings shall be well and safely supported, of sufficient width, and properly secured so as to ensure the safety of persons working on them or passing under them or by them and to prevent them from falling or to prevent any material that may be used, placed, or deposited on them from falling."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.