Hines v. Sweeney’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Jacoby v. City of Gillette (1946), O'Malley v. Eagan (1931)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Grand Trunk Western Railway Company v. George Lindsay · Southern Railway Company v. Maggie Gray L · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Laack · Christianson v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · Merrill v. Los Angeles Gas Elec. 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even though the facts are undisputed, still, if more than one inference can be drawn therefrom, the question of negligence is for the jury. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Negligence consists of a violation of duty owing by one to another”
1 later decision 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.