Canode v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1961
4 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 Washington v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · Crabb v. Celeste Independent School District · Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. Boone · Johnson v. Hanscom · Lamon v. Fritz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a shorthand method of saying that the circumstances attendant upon an occurrence are of such a character as to speak for themselves in inferring the negligence and the cause of the disaster”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schaff v. Sanders
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.