Collins v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2024
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Conklin v. State · Bacon v. Lascelles · Rivers v. State · 269 N.J. Super. 36 - Lombardo v. Hoag · Coville v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although proximate cause ordinarily is characterized as a jury issue, it may be decided as a matter of law ... where all reasonable minds would construe the facts and circumstances one way.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who, being under no duty to do so, takes charge of another who is helpless adequately to aid or protect himself is subject to liability to the other for any bodily harm caused to him by ... the failure of the actor to exercise reasonable care to secure the safety of the other while within the actor’s charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's negligence was legally sufficient to result in liability.”
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.