Emery v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc. (1953), 144 Ind. App. 471 - Wozniczka v. McKEAN (1969)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 Kelly v. Benas · Hull Ex Rel. Hull v. Gillioz · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Edwards · Buchanan v. C. R. I. & P. Ry. Co. · Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad v. Jordan
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * `Inherently dangerous means that danger inheres in the instrumentality or condition itself, at all times, so as to require special precautions to be taken with regard to it to prevent injury; instead of danger arising from mere casual or collateral negligence of others with respect to it under particular circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable anticipation that harm or injury is a likely result of acts or omissions.”
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.