Spoeneman v. Uhri’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward (1953), Buehler v. Festus Mercantile Co. (1938)
76 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 Banks v. Morris Company · Cluck v. Abe · Chawkley v. Wabash Railway Co. · State Ex Rel. Fleming v. Bland · Valley Spring Hog Ranch Co. v. Plagmann
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither should he [defendant] be convicted of negligence under the humanitarian doctrine if he could have avoided injuring the appellant only by inflicting injury upon himself or third parties, or even only by exposing himself or them to unreasonable hazard. The exercise of reasonable care does not require one man to save another at such expense to himself or his fellows.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eller v. Crowell
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.