Griggs v. . Sears, Roebuck Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1967
8 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The Court is reluctant to advance the standard of due care to such an unreasonable length as would practically put every accident in the category of actionable negligence, or make a storekeeper the insurer of the safety of his customers. [Cases cited.] “The measure of due care adopted in this state is that of the ordinarily prudent, not the perfectly prudent, man. [Cases cited.]””
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.