Arnold v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Danville Community Hospital, Inc. v. Thompson (1947), Richter v. Seawell (1944)
9 federal appellate · 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 Hutcheson v. Savings Bank of Richmond · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Heath · Riggsby v. Tritton · Peters v. Lynchburg Light & Traction Co. · Norfolk Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc. v. Krausse
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . (T)he doctrine does not apply in the case of an unexplained accident which may have been attributable to one of several causes, for some of which the defendant is not responsible.”
4 later decisions 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.