Smith v. Leuthner’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Dubay v. Irish (1988), Lodge v. Arett Sales Corp. (1998)
38 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 Petrizzo v. Commercial Contractors Corporation · Marley v. New England Transportation Co. · Bader v. United Orthodox Synagogue · Greene v. DiFazio · Block v. Pascucci
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he ultimate test of the existence of a duty to use care, the nonperformance of which constitutes negligence, is to be found in the reasonable forseeability of harm resulting from a failure to exercise that care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“past history of car thefts or any other criminal activity in the neighborhood or anything about the neighborhood which would be particularly conducive to the theft of an automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“becomes a question of law ... when the mind of a fair and reasonable person could reach but one conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heisinger v. Cleary
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.