Snow v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Parrish v. Spink (1969), Modaber v. Kelley (1986)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton · Finnell v. Pitts · Allaire v. St. Luke's Hospital · Barfield v. South Highlands Infirmary
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.
““the mother, in an action against the attending physician, may recover, in one and the same action, damages for all injuries sustained by her, by reason of — proximate result of — the negligence of the physician in and about the parturition of the infant, including the death of the infant, before it is severed from the mother.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Borello
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.