Davis v. Dennert’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Coyle v. Stopak (1957), Brown v. Globe Laboratories, Inc. (1957)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 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 Shields v. County of Buffalo · Dravo v. Fabel · Plumb v. Burnham · Buresh v. George · Stark v. Turner
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence is a question of fact and may be proved by circumstantial evidence and physical facts. All that the law requires is that the facts and circumstances proved, together with the inferences that may be properly drawn therefrom, shall indicate with reasonable certainty the negligent act charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weir v. Simmons
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.