Skeen v. Springfield Engine & Thresher Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1940
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 Acton v. Dooley · Bales v. Perry · State ex rel. Wolff v. Berning · Koch v. Branch & Crookes · Dousman v. Wisconsin & Lake Superior Mining & Smelting 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such cases the question may be treated as one of law and passed upon by the court without the encroachment on the province of the jury.””
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.