Bumbarger v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Lobozzo v. Adam Eidemiller, Inc. (1970), Knuth v. Erie-Crawford Dairy Cooperative Ass'n (1972)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Kopka v. Bell Telephone Co. of Pa. · Rabe v. Shoenberger Coal Co. · Federoff Et Ux. v. Harrison Const. Co. · Rothrauff Et Ux. v. Sinking Spr. W. Co. · Collins v. Chartiers V. Gas 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n Pennsylvania it is established that one who carries on an ultrahazardous activity is liable for injury to another whose person, land or chattels the actor should recognize as likely to be harmed by the unpreventable miscarriage of the activity, when the harm results thereto from that which makes the activity ultrahazardous, although the utmost care is exercised to prevent it. This is known as the doctrine of absolute liability.”
2 later decisions 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.