Collins v. Spielman’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Griffin v. Catherine Sugar Co. (1951), 141 So. 2d 852 - Finn v. EMPLOYERS'LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORPORATION (1962)
44 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 Byas v. Hotel Bentley, Inc. · Shipp v. Bordelon · Rylander v. T. Smith & Son, Inc. · Robichaux v. Realty Operators, Inc. · Haddad v. Commercial Motor Truck 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The injury which gave rise to this suit resulted when a stick which plaintiff was using to drive the defendant's cows into the dairy barn for milking broke off, hitting him in the eye.”
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.