Sumner v. Griswold’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2013
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Burke v. Zwick · Rzeszewski v. Barth · Andersen v. Byrnes · Oran v. Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. · 263 Ill. App. 325 - McDermott v. McKeown Transportation 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law does not countenance the anomaly of professing to look and not seeing that which is clearly visible. * * * "The fact that the night was misty and foggy in low places, as plaintiffs assert, would not condone the failure to see, but on the contrary, would necessitate greater caution * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Price“The law does not countenance the anomaly of professing to look and not seeing that which is clearly visible. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Price
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.