Pinehurst Co. v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Le Vonas v. Acme Paper Board Co. (1944), Brooks v. Lewin Realty III, Inc. (2003)
3 federal appellate · 41 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 Albert v. State ex rel. Ryan · Yockel v. Gerstadt · Texas Co. v. Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad · Carlin v. Smith · Kalus v. Bass
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A risk, while obvious, may not be so imminently dangerous that a prudent man would necessarily avoid it, yet if it shall be freely encountered it will in general be held to be so far assumed that no recovery for consequent injury is possible.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.