Wynn v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Mounsey v. Ellard (1973), Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway (1973)
2 district · 36 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 Guinan v. Famous Players-Lasky Corp. · Newcomb v. Boston Protective Department · Johnson v. Norcross Bros. · Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk Mills · Baggs v. Hirschfield
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.
“[I]t is true that the defendant's violation of law would have been evidence of negligence on his part, if he had owed a duty to be careful”
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.