Vanderhule v. Berinstein’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
January 1985
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Johnson v. Lutz · Woollcott v. . Shubert · Dickson v. Waldron · McCrink v. City of New York
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ultimate duty of the defendants, for a breach of which the defendants could be held liable, was the duty to refrain from hiring or retaining anyone whom they knew or, in the exercise of reasonable care, they should have known was potentially dangerous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. Morsell
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.