Luck v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2003
5 federal appellate · 13 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 Starcher v. South Penn Oil Co. · Lavenstein v. Maile · Roanoke Railway & Electric Co. v. Whitner
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the concurrent negligence of two or more persons combined together results in an injury to a third person he may recover from either or all. And in determining the liability of either of two persons whose concurrent negligence results in an injury, the comparative degrees of negligence are not to be considered, each being liable for the whole even though the other was equally culpable, or contributed in a greater degree to the injury; or the proportion in which the negligence of each contributed to the injury, or the degrees of care used, is not to be considered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. Smithson
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.