Jackson v. Ferree’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Belcher v. T. Rowe Price Foundation, Inc. (1993), Harris v. Board of Education (2003)
27 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 State Roads Commission v. Reynolds · Heil v. Linck · Wheeler v. Rhoten · Beadle v. Bethlehem Steel 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such an injury as the statute contemplates means any fortuitous, casual, and unexpected happening which causes personal disability or death....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.