Wall v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably Baggs v. Hirschfield (1935), McKenna v. Andreassi (1935)
33 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 Lake v. Atlantic Works · Bourne v. Whitman · Newcomb v. Boston Protective Department · Dudley v. Northampton Street Railway Co. · Falk v. Finkelman
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘One is bound to anticipate and provide against what usually happens and what is likely to happen, but is not bound in like manner to guard against what is unusual and unlikely to happen, or what, as is sometimes said, is only remotely and slightly probable.’ Falk v. Finkelman, 268 Mass. 524, 527 , 168 N. E. 89, 90 .””
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.