Abraham v. Moler’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Menish v. Polinger Company (1976), 61 Md. App. 670 - Schear v. Motel Management Corp. of America (1985)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Barrack · Honolulu Ltd. v. Cain · Raff v. Acme Markets, Inc. · Ensor v. Ortman · Gutterman v. Biggs
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contributory negligence is an affirmative defense which was available to appellants and they had the burden of proving not only that a reasonably prudent person would, in the circumstances, have taken certain precautions but also that Mrs. Moler failed to take those precautions and that her failure so to do directly contributed to her injury.” Id. at 218 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reiser v. Abramson““Ordinarily the question whether the verdict is excessive "is not a matter for review by this Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schofield v. Uebel
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.