Mazer v. Lipschutz’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.2d 42 · 1963
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Thomas Polk v. Ford Motor Company, Ethel Lee Marshall, Guardian v. Ford Motor Company (1976), Lies v. Farrell Lines, Inc. (1981)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Johnson v. United States · Pauling v. McElroy · Lind v. Schenley Industries Inc. · Mature v. Angelo · McNello v. John B. Kelly, Inc.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of the foregoing it follows that the jury under proper instructions would have been entitled to find Dr. Lipschutz, as the captain of the ship, vicariously liable for the administration of incompatible blood to Professor Abrams.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mazer v. Lipshutz“an appellate court may in its discretion, disregard Rule 51 when the error claimed is plain and may result in a miscarriage of justice . . . .”
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.