Willis v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1999
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. · Mosheuvel v. District of Columbia · Firfer v. United States · Distinti v. Cunningham · Arthur v. Standard Engineering Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It was not necessarily negligent for the wife knowingly and deliberately to encounter a danger which it was negligent for appellants to maintain. The decisive question was whether her conduct was reasonable under all the circumstances. * * * ” Willis v. Stewart, supra, 190 A.2d at 817 .”
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.