Frei v. Frei’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2000
8 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 Scory v. LaFave · Yerkes v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Fandek v. Barnett & Record Co. · Nickas v. Hines
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He also knew there was a perfectly safe way of protecting himself . . . —and he knew that he was entitled to use this method. Knowing all these facts, he chose the dangerous way and was, under the circumstances, guilty of contributory negligence. “. . . If such conduct constituted contributory negligence, it was the duty of the trial court to hold such negligence of the plaintiff, as a matter of law, to have been at least as great, or greater, than defendant’s negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burmeister v. Damrow
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.