Opsahl v. Judd’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2009
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Carroll v. . Staten Island R.R. Co. · McIntyre v. . New York Central R.R. Co. · Sherlock v. Alling · Shaber v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. · Watkins v. Hackett
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any relaxation in the rule as to duty or liability naturally, and, it may be said, inevitably, tends to bring about a corresponding relaxation of care and diligence upon the part of the carrier.”
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.