Duff v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Howes v. Kelman (1951), Douglas v. Whittaker (1949)
34 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 Duggan v. Bay State Street Railway Co. · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. English Construction Co. · Mercier v. Union Street Railway Co. · Lydon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Whiteacre v. Boston Elevated Railway 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative defence to be . . . proved by the defendant.” The plaintiff makes out a case for the jury by proving injury and damage due to the negligence of the defendant unless”
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.