Epperson v. DeJarnette’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson (1988), Elizabeth River Tunnel District v. Beecher (1961)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 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 Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Bibb's Adm'r v. N. & W. R. R. · Clinchfield Coal Corp. v. Redd · Davis Bakery, Inc. v. Dozier · Baker v. Nussman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ £[A] man who orders a work to be executed, from which, in the natural course of things, injurious consequences to his neighbor must be expected to arise, unless means are adopted by. which such consequences may be prevented, is bound to see to the doing of that which is necessary to prevent the mischief, and cannot relieve himself of his responsibility by employing someone else—whether it be the contractor employed to do the work from which the danger arises, or some independent person—to do what is necessary to prevent the act he has ordered to be done from becoming wrongful.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the jury is the judge of the weight of testimony .and the credibility of witnesses, it cannot arbitrarily disregard the uncontradicted evidence of unimpeached witnesses which is not inherently incredible and not inconsistent with other facts and circumstances appearing in the record, even though such witnesses are interested in the .results of the litigation.” ( 164 Va. at p. 485 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person who is employed to do a piece of work without restriction as to the means to be employed, and who employs his own labor and undertakes to do the work according to his own ideas, or in accordance with plans furnished by the person for whom the work is done, to whom the owner looks only for results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Atkinson v. Sachno
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.