Spelman v. Delano’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1973 · most notably Hays v. Hogan (1917), Fisher v. Fletcher (1922)
32 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Burge v. Wabash Railroad · McNulta v. Lockridge · Currie v. Consolidated Railway Co. · Baxter v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Welty v. Indianapolis & Vincennes 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It must be remembered that the question in the case at bar does not involve a bailment in which the bailee is the agent or servant of the bailor, nor is there any privity of contract between them.””
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.