Breker v. Rosema’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Sherry Ex Rel. Sherry v. Asing (1975), Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. Erickson (1965)
5 federal appellate · 23 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 Stotler ex rel. Stotler v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co. · Gillett v. Michigan United Traction Co. · Heaps v. Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co. · Arnold v. Krug · Thompson v. Southern Michigan Transportation 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is authority from other jurisdictions giving support to the proposition that a plaintiff deprived of his ability to testify by injuries received in an accident should be afforded the benefit of the presumption of due care, no such principle has ever been accepted in this state. In our judgment, the trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury that such a presumption was to be applied under the facts of this case.”
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.