United States v. Robert Stoppelmann, a Minor, by Mary Stoppelmann, His Mother and Next Friend’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Solomon Dehydrating Company, Incorporated v. Clarence R. Guyton, Central Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, and the Greyhound Corporation (1961), Smith v. United States (1964)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Burger v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Gantz v. United States · Thompson v. Byers Transp. Co. · Jackson ex rel. Jackson v. Butler · Holmes v. Missouri Pacific Railway 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Certainly the negligence of defendant in leaving these dangerous explosives exposed and accessible to children and those of immature judgment with knowledge that they were so exposed constituted a substantial factor in bringing about plaintiff’s injuries.””
2 later decisions 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.