Nelson v. Langstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1997
5 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 Jackson v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Lindquist v. Des Moines Union Railway Co. · Atherton v. Hoenig's Grocery · In Re Estate of John Telsrow · Robinson v. Fort Dodge Limestone 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would have been proper for plaintiff to have shown similar accidents and that defendants knew of them. We held evidence of similar accidents admissible to show knowledge of a dangerous condition in- Lindquist v. Des Moines Union Ry. Co., 239 Iowa 356 , 30 N.W.2d 120 . And in Jackson v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R. Co., 238 Iowa 1253, 1264, 1265 , 30 N.W.2d 97, 103, 104 , after a thorough examination of the authorities we held the absence of accidents at the same place as tending to show absence of danger and lack of knowledge thereof by a party claimed to be at fault admissible. See also Wigmore’s Code of Evidence, rule 66, article 7, section 443; rule 77, article 4, section 536; and McCormick on Evidence, section 167, pages 353, 354.””
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.