Cudney v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Hartsel v. Keys · GenCorp, Inc. v. American International Underwriters · Riddle v. McLouth Steel Products Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clothes racks in general are not only open and obvious in a department store, they are completely ordinary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.