Owen v. Dix’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Newbury v. Vogel (1963), Widener v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1950)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Ingram · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Akin · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Smith · Sutton v. Webb · Dickinson v. Mooneyham
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant's negligence aggravates, or brings into activity, a dormant or diseased condition or one to which the injured person is predisposed, the defendant is liable to the injured person for the full amount of the damages which ensue, notwithstanding such diseased or weakened condition.”
3 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.