Risacher v. Lien’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1994
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Reese v. Henke · Simon v. Carroll · Ryan v. Griffin · Pluwak v. Lindberg · Haugen v. Dick Thayer Motor 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sum of the matter is that, given the jury’s determination that defendant was negligent, the direct causal connection between defendant’s negligent conduct and the ensuing collision is rather inescapable as a matter of commonsense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May v. Lemmon
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.