Lucas v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2005
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt · New York Co v. Fruchter · Mattson v. Minnesota & North Wisconsin Railroad · McComb City v. Hayman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who maintains dangerous instrumentalities or appliances on his premises easily accessible to children and of a character likely to attract them in play, or permits dangerous conditions to remain thereon with the knowledge that children are in the habit of resorting thereto for amusement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This doctrine has been repudiated by a majority of the courts, and”
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.