Nelson v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1999
4 federal appellate · 7 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 City of Rochester v. . Campbell · Mullins v. . Siegel-Cooper Co. · Troeger v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Kosters v. National Bank of Auburn
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Had the defendant in the instant case done nothing except to permit the snow and ice, as it fell, to remain undisturbed, there would undoubtedly be no cause of action against her for the injuries to an innocent passerby . . . having, however, undertaken to remove such snow and ice, the defendant was bound to do so in a reasonable and prudent manner and to avoid setting any traps and pitfalls. She failed in this duty by not removing all of the snow and ice once she had undertaken to do so, and by leaving the remaining snow and ice in an irregular, hilly and slippery condition,”
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.