Ferguson v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Griffin v. Shively (1984), Cable v. Commonwealth (1992)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 Bagley v. Weaver · Haymore v. Brizendine · Goodwin and Reed v. Gilman
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]ross negligence [is] that degree of negligence which shows such indifference to others as constitutes an utter disregard of prudence amounting to a complete neglect of the safety of the guest. It must be such a degree of negligence as would shock fairminded men although something less than willful recklessness.”
8 later decisions 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.