Webb v. McDaniels’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1975
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Threlkeld v. Breaux Ballard, Inc. · Newton v. Wetherby's Adm'x · Blackburn v. Depoyster · Breckinridge County v. Gannaway · Barnett v. Latonia Jockey Club
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is that where the relation of bailor and bailee for hire or mutual benefit exists, the bailee must exercise ordinary care and diligence in safeguarding the property and is liable for the injury to, or loss of, the property resulting from his failure to do so, but is not liable for the injury or loss of the property not resulting from negligence on his part, or that of his agents or employees . . . "”
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.