Gutterman v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1986 · most notably Tsugawa v. Reinartz (1974), Erdman v. Johnson Bros. Radio & Television Co. (1970)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Hopper, McGaw & Co. v. Kelly · Goldman v. Johnson Motor Lines, Inc. · Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Ex Rel. Schriefer · Lindenberg v. Needles · Sears v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless there be some evidence of negligence of the plaintiff contributing to the happening of the accident beyond a mere scintilla, or evidence from which negligence may be legally inferred by reasonable persons, there is nothing which justifies the submission of the plaintiff’s negligence to the jury. Gutterman v. Biggs, 249 Md. 421 , 240 A. 2d 260 [(1968)]; see Rice v. Norris, 249 Md. 563, 566 , 241 A. 2d 411 [(1968)].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.