Sullivan v. . Dunham’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield (1954), Kilberg v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. (1961)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSullivan v. Dunham
Relationships
Relies on Booth v. . R., W. O.T.R.R. Co. · Radcliff's Executors v. . Mayor, C. of Brooklyn · Hay v. . the Cohoes Company · Bohan v. Port Jervis Gaslight Co. · Losee v. . Buchanan
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That was not a case of intentional but of accidental explosion.” The following principle was then stated (per Vann, J., p. 300): “ We think the courts below were right in holding the defendants liable as trespassers, regardless of the care they may have used in doing the work. Their action was a direct invasion of the rights of the person injured, who was lawfully in a public highway, which was a safe place until they made it otherwise by throwing into it the section of a tree. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buda v. State““One cannot confine the vibration of the earth or air within inclosed limits, and hence it must follow that if, in any given case, they are rightfully caused, their extension to their ultimate and natural limits cannot be unlawful,-and the consequential injury, if any, must be remediless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the safety of the person is more sacred than the safety of property,”
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.