Stetson v. Easterling’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably DiDonato v. Wortman (1987), Bowen v. CONSTRUCTORS EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY (1973)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Smith v. Brennan · Steggall Ex Rel. Stegall v. Morris · Amann v. Faidy · Graf v. Taggert · Gay v. Thompson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“John Edward Stetson could not swallow and therefore had to be fed by the use of a tube. That a thick mucus formed in and about the mouth and nose and had to be removed by the use of a suction device, and the baby had no eye blink.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Nichols“Upon the greater and better weight of authority, as well as our own convictions of natural justice and of public policy, we are constrained to hold that the plaintiff can recover substantial damages in the case at bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Nichols“`the most spectacular abrupt reversal of a wellsettled rule in the whole history of the law of torts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DiDonato v. Wortman
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.