Tobin v. Grossman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall (1994), 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa (1989)
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 154 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Dillon v. Legg · MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · 59 Cal. 2d 295 - Amaya v. Home Ice, Fuel & Supply Co. · Bernardine v. City of New York · Steitz v. City of Beacon
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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ever since MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 217 N.Y. 382 , 111 N.E. 1050 , L.R.A.1916F, 696, was decided more than a half century ago, there has been an expanding recognition that the argument concerning unlimited liability is of no merit, yet the aberrations persist. One would imagine that we were here involved with a catastrophic loss. There have already been decisions imposing liability of far greater dimension than can ever arise if we should embark upon a search for “essential justice” in the bystander class of cases. Id., 301 N.Y.S.2d at 563 , 249 N.E.2d at 525 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sinn v. Burd“stringent evidence of causation and of actual injury.”
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.