Syneszewski v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1942 · most notably Stetz v. F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co. (1916), Krutlies v. Bulls Head Coal Co. (1915)
31 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 Marino v. . Lehmaier · Nickey v. Steuder · American Car & Foundry Co. v. Armentraut · McCutcheon v. People · Leathers v. Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It embraces, also, the doctrine, announced at an early day by this court (Billings v. Breinig, 45 Mich. 65, 71 ), that, although disobedience of a statute may be conclusive evidence of negligence, a condition of recovery by one urging the disobedience is that such disobedience must be the proximate cause of the injury complained of or that it contributed to the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warwick v. Blackney““It is the general rule that a civil action is maintainable where the person complaining is of a class entitled to take advantage of the law, is a sufferer from the disobedience, is not himself a partaker in the wrong of which he complains, or is not otherwise precluded by the principles of the common law from his proper standing in court.””
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.