Kaplan v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992), Moran v. Fabergé, Inc. (1975)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 35 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 State v. Hatfield · Eisenhower v. Baltimore Transit Co. · Holler v. Lowery · Egan Chevrolet Co. v. Bruner · Sothoron v. West
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who leases a chattel as safe for immediate use is subject to liability to those whom he should expect to use the chattel, or to be endangered by its probable use, for physical harm caused by its use in a manner for which, and by a person for whose use, it is leased, if the lessor fails to exercise reasonable care to make it safe for such use or to disclose its actual condition to those who may be expected to use it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[It] then becomes incumbent on the [bailor] to show that the defect was not preventable by any care or skill on his part. This is particularly true where the defect would have been ascertained by a skillful and careful inspection, and the defendant and not the plaintiff were in possession of the automobile until the letting .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who permits a truck with a dangerously defective steering mechanism to be used upon the public highways, not only has reason to anticipate that it will cause an accident, but may be almost certain that it will do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rawls v. Ziegler
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.