Leveillee v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Carter v. Yardley & Co. (1946), Northern Indiana Transit, Inc. v. Burk (1950)
2 district · 44 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 Lake v. Atlantic Works · Newcomb v. Boston Protective Department · Falk v. Finkelman · Hill v. Winsor · Wallace v. Ludwig
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . It was not necessary that the defendant should have foreseen the precise manner in which the accident might result. Hill v. Winsor, 118 Mass. 251, 259 . Perlman v. Burrows, 270 Mass. 182, 184 [ 169 N. E. 897 ]. Morse v. Homer’s Inc. 295 Mass. 606, 610 [ 4 N. E. 2d 625 ]. Bellows v. Worcester Storage Co. 297 Mass. 188, 195 [ 7 N. E. 2d 588 ]. We think that it could have been found that in its general nature, what actually occurred was a probable consequence of the defendant’s negligence, when all the attendant circumstances are considered, and that it was not something which was only remotely and slightly probable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We think that whether an automobile standing in the highway is parked or not must be determined from all the circumstances including the reason why it is so standing. By 'parking’ is meant something more than a mere temporary and reasonable stop for a necessary purpose including a stop resulting from mechanical trouble. But the reasonableness of a temporary or involuntary stop including the length of such a stop must also depend on the circumstances surrounding it.” In the instant case no Traffic Rules and Regulations of the City of Boston defining the words”
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.