Rosenberg v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Ingersoll v. Liberty Bank of Buffalo (1938), Schwartz v. Merola Bros. Construction Corp. (1943)
20 federal appellate · 53 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 Martin v. Herzog · Schumer v. Caplin · DeHaen v. Rockwood Sprinkler Co. of Massachusetts · Moore v. Charles T. Wills, Inc. · Besner v. . Central Trust 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury might reasonably have found that the plaintiff's injury was the direct result of the defendant's negligence. The plaintiff was not required to offer evidence which positively excluded every other possible cause of the accident.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is present and sees and realizes that a subcontractor is doing his work in an unlawful and dangerous manner,”
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.