Van Doorn v. Heap’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1957
11 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 Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. · Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald · Adams v. Iron Cliffs Co. · Swick v. Ætna Portland Cement Co. · Sipes v. Michigan Starch 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of proof tending to show the contrary, where a person is killed by an accident to which there were no eyewitnesses, the presumption of the law is that he was in the exercise of due care.” •”
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.