Sheila Ilina Boland, Etc. v. J. Spencer Love’s Empirical Analysis
222 F.2d 27 · 1955
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Morris v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (1986), Gaither v. Myers (1968)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Gunning v. Cooley · Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration · Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two facets of the law are commonly encountered in situations such as we have here, (1) ‘the law applicable to the case, so far as it concerns the standard of conduct required of the parties, is the law of the place of injury,’ and (2) the application of that standard must be made according to the law of the District of Columbia, for that is a procedural matter. Consequently, the question whether there is sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury must be determined according to our law.” (citing Tobin v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 69 App.D.C. 262, 263 , 100 F.2d 435 (1938), certiorari denied, 306 U.S. 640 , 59 S.Ct. 488 , 83 L.Ed. 1040 (1939)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that cause which, in natural and continual sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury and without which the result would not have occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunn v. Marsh
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.