Green v. Reading Co.’s Empirical Analysis
183 F.2d 716 · 1950
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Keen v. Overseas Tankship Corp. (1952), Troupe v. Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Co. (1956)
30 federal appellate · 7 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 Frederick v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. · Pfotzer v. Aqua System, Inc. · Sweeney v. United Feature Syndicate, Inc. · Stilwell v. Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not negligence to fail to use care to discover the presence of an unanticipated trespasser, but it is negligence within the meaning of the law to fail to use ordinary and reasonable care to avoid injury to a trespasser after his presence has been ascertained or under all the circumstances should have been ascertained. The defendant's duty to exercise reasonable care and caution for the plaintiff's safety did not arise unless and until the defendant learned of the plaintiff's presence or perceived facts which would have indicated the plaintiff's presence on the right of way of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no good reason for applying the rule so indiscriminately as to prevent counsel from pointing out on appeal matter which he did endeavor to identify to the trial court and which he had every reason to believe the court fully comprehended when granting an exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.