Downs v. Poulin’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1987
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Goller v. White · Dunlap v. Dunlap · Hewlett v. George · 7 Ill. 2d 608 - Nudd v. Matsoukas · Roller v. Roller
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to the “modern and more enlightened” argument the Conrt said: “The great weight of authority, unquestionably sustains the proposition that an unemancipated minor child cannot sue his parent for the negligent act of such parent causing the child to suffer personal injuries.”
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.