Uline Ice, Inc. v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.2d 82 · 1950
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Troupe v. Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Co. (1956), Tug Ocean Prince, Inc. v. United States (1978)
26 federal appellate · 1 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Hellweg v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. · Modec v. City of Eveleth · James v. R. I. Auditorium, Inc. · Weber v. Eaton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There have been many decisions involving this question in cases where spectators were injured at sporting events, primarily in attending baseball games. In the baseball cases, with few exceptions, it generally has been held that, as a matter of law, the spectator assumes the risk of the normal hazards of watching such a game; and that, as a matter of law, the danger of being hit by a ball which flies into an unscreened area is a normal hazard, within the common knowledge possessed by reasonably prudent persons.”
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.