Shaver v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1967
12 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 Richmond Co v. Powers · Ellis v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Slam v. Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway Co. · Morey v. Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Co. · Valin v. Milwaukee & Northern Railroad
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the engineer might not have anticipated the specific injury to the plaintiff, it is reasonable that he should have anticipated that travelers might undertake to cross the track even though a train might be in sight, and that accidents were more likely to happen if the train was running at an illegal than at a legal rate of speed. Under the testimony the jury may have believed that if the train had been going twelve miles an hour or less, the accident would not have happened at all. Ellis v. C. & N. W. R. Co. 167 Wis. 392, 402 , 167 N. W. 1048 ,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webster v. Roth
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.