Shattuck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably Excelsior Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. State of New York (1946), Scolavino v. State (1946)
37 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Phillips v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Martindale v. State · Curley v. State · Pack v. Linde Air Products Company
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Public or private institutions maintained for the care of those unfortunates suffering from mental or nervous defects or diseases have imposed upon them the legal duty of taking every reasonable precaution to protect their patients from injury either self-inflicted or otherwise." 2 N.Y.S.2d at 355 .”
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.