Scheppmann v. Swennes’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1956
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Commonwealth v. Henry · Jaquith v. Worden · Dohm v. R. N. Cardozo Brother · Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Union Transfer & Storage Co. · Nathan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The disabled car was not plaintiff’s, and he was not responsible for its unlit condition. He was there at the request of the owner of the car to assist in removing it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bakken v. Lewis““* * * Before plaintiff came to the disabled car he of course was not chargeable with its condition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bakken v. Lewis
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.