Stivers v. Black & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1974
9 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 Illinois Central R. R. Co. v. Oswald · Bernier v. Illinois Central Railroad · Osgood v. Skinner · Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Mee · Chicago City Railway Co. v. Nelson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The argument especially criticizes the using of the words ‘due and proper care and caution’ without defining what those words mean; counsel insisting that the jury might be misled as to their meaning unless further defined. With this we cannot agree. The words are not technical. They are in common use. To require the definition of all words or expressions used in instructions would often tend to confuse rather than aid the jury. If it is necessary to explain such terms, might it not be equally necessary to explain the terms used in the explanation P * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.