Hall v. Mengel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2016
6 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 Leday v. Lake Charles Pipe & Supply Co. · Crawford v. Tampa Inter-Ocean S. S. Co. · Cutitto v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · Murphy v. B. Mutti, Inc. · 4 La. App. 157 - Martin v. Wyatt Lumber 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * first, the operation is not a minor or simple one, but is classed as a major one; second, the danger to life one chance out of a hundred of losing his lifeis too great, and the probability of a recurrencefrom five to ten per centrenders the result too uncertain; and, third, there would be considerable pain and discomfort, with a long period of confinement and convalescence."”
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.