Larned v. Vanderlinde’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2010
5 federal appellate · 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 Moore v. Township of Kenockee · Moore v. City of Kalamazoo · Campbell v. City of Kalamazoo · Alberts v. Village of Vernon · Corcoran v. City of Detroit
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is an absence of harmony in the decisions on the subject of the admissibility of proof of other accidents in negligence cases. In Michigan testimony of that kind has been held admissible in sidewalk and other highway cases, but its use has been limited to the question of notice of defects.” Citing cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werney v. Reid““One is negligent if he allows such a flight of stairs to escape his notice, from no other reason than mere inattention to his surroundings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t would not be competent to prove an absence of accidents as tending to show an absence of negligence.”
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.