Schmidt v. Beninga’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Christianson v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · Cameron v. Evans · Lovejoy v. Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co. · Cournoyer v. American Television & Radio Co. · Dellwo v. Pearson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he observance of a custom or failure to observe it does not necessarily amount to due care or lack of it, but such evidence is admissible as tending to show what a reasonably prudent person would do under the same or similar circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]t the same time it must be recognized that the doing of a negligent act is not excused by the fact that it is customary.”
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.