Syverson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1988
15 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 Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf R. R. v. McDade · Rase v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. · Blomberg v. Trupukka · O'Niel v. Great Northern Railway Co. · Scharenbroich v. St. Cloud Fiber-Ware 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Taking all fact situations into account as disclosed by the evidence, it appears quite conclusively that the plaintiff knew of the existence of the facts which created the danger; that he fully appreciated the nature and extent of the particular risk created at the time, which, on his own testimony, was observable; and that he acquiesced and willingly, on his own, assumed the risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Knowledge of the physical characteristics of common substances come to all men of average intelligence in the ordinary course of life. Some of these are that fire will burn; that water will drown; that water makes a floor slippery; and that a human being is hable to slip and fall in slippery places.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geis v. Hodgman
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.