Caufield v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1947
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Riley v. Berry Bros. Paint Co. · Gauss v. Hewitt Metals Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be held not only to refer to the happening of the hernia, rather than to the happening of subsequent disability, but it must also be held to be a mandatory provision.”
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.