Sweet v. . Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 1972 · most notably MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. (1916), Dunham v. Village of Canisteo (1952)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 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 Ring v. . City of Cohoes · 11 E.H. Smith 312 - Tinker v. New York, Ontario & Western Railway 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where concurrence in causes is charged, the test is, simply, could the accident have happened without their co-operation 1””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Robinson
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.