Evans v. General Explosives Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1967
20 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 George v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Crowl ex rel. Crowl v. American Linseed Co. · Czernicke v. Ehrlich · Williams v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · Morgan v. Oronogo Circle Mining 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contributory negligence may be rebutted by showing that the thing done was customary or was done in the customary manner, especially when it is shown that it was with the knowledge of the master.”
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.