Schumer v. Caplin’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 1983 · most notably Rosenberg v. Schwartz (1932), Sadowski v. Long Island R.R. Co. (1944)
9 federal appellate · 46 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 United States v. Grimaud · Grand Trunk Railroad Company v. Richardson et al. · Shannahan v. . Empire Engineering Corp. · McGrath v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Knupfle v. . Knickerbocker Ice Company
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not establish negligence per se, but [merely constitutes] some evidence of negligence, which the jury could take into consideration with all other evidence bearing on that subject.”
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.