Glaser v. Schroeder’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1972 · most notably Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Martin (1949), Thomas v. Motor Lines (1949)
30 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 Lonergan v. American Railway Express Co. · Reardon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Ryan v. Fall River Iron Works Co. · Loanes v. Gast · Washburn v. R. F. Owens 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As was said in Glaser v. Schroeder, 269 Mass. 337, at 339 , 'the unexplained automatic starting of a machine from a state of rest into motion, when according to its mechanical construction it ought to remain still, is evidence not only of some defect or want of repair in the machine but also of negligence in failing to discover and remedy such defect or want of repair, even though the details of such defect or want of repair may not be shown by the evidence.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ehler v. Spack
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.