Reiser v. Abramson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Flippo (1998), Menish v. Polinger Company (1976)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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 Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Ex Rel. Castranda · Rogers v. Frush · Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Blanchard · Honolulu Ltd. v. Cain · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Plews
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to establish contributory negligence as a matter of law, `the evidence must show some prominent and decisive act which directly contributed to the accident and which was of such a character as to leave no room for difference of opinion thereon by reasonable minds.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Water is a colorless liquid. The testimony here is that that which was on the floor was in fact colorless____ [I]t often is not visible to the naked eye. Its visibility depends upon the angle at which it is viewed and the direction from which light comes.””
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.