Borgstede v. Waldbauer’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Fowler v. Park Corp. (1984), Perkins v. Terminal Railroad Assn. (1937)
125 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 Hornbuckle v. McCarty · Smith v. Wells · Burke Ex Rel. Burke v. Pappas · Schulz v. Smercina · Shumate Ex Rel. Shumate v. Wells
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court instructs the jury that if you believe and find from the evidence in this cause that the accident mentioned in the evidence, and in which plaintiff alleges he was injured, was caused on account of the sole negligence of defendant Nicholas M. Jakovac, and that there was no negligence on the part of The Western Union Telegraph Company causing or contributing to cause said accident, then your verdict must be in favor of defendant `The Western Union Telegraph Company.'”
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.