Vaughan v. . Transit Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. (1928), Caldwell v. Village of Island Park (1952)
4 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 Walsh v. Fitchburg Railroad · Johnson v. Norcross Bros. · Heskell v. Auburn Light, Heat & Power Co. · Stevens v. Nichols · Fox v. . Warner-Quinlan Asphalt Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant rendered him a gratuitous service and owed him slight care. He was on the premises by sufferance. He had permission to be there merely because he had not been ordered off. Reciprocally, it was his duty actively to look out for himself, to observe the changed conditions, the ladder, the men at work, the opening in the floor. He was entitled to no greater notice than the doing of the work itself gave of what was being done. If he was incurious to the obvious, he was himself to blame.””
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.