Hudson v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably 314 Pa. Super. 414 - Feld v. Merriam (1983), 274 Pa. Super. 427 - Murphy v. Penn Fruit Co. (1980)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · MacDougall v. Penna. Power & Light Co. · Oviatt, Administrator v. Garretson · Keith v. Yazoo M.V.R. Co. · 109 Ind. App. 693 - Pitcairn v. Whiteside
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Human life is so complex that the circumstances attending the happening of different accidents are correspondingly varied, but the principle which determines the imposition of liability is simple and constant, being based on the proposition that one who, by substandard conduct, causes injury to another is legally responsible therefor if the harmful consequences of such conduct could reasonably have been foreseen.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[Wjhat usually is done may be evidence of what ought to be done, but what ought to be done is fixed by a standard of reasonable prudence, whether it usually is complied with or not.’ Texas & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Behymer, 1903, 189 U.S. 468, 470 , 23 S.Ct. 622 , 47 L.Ed. 905 * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ne who is in possession of land adjacent or in close proximity to a public highway must exercise reasonable care to avoid injury to the traveling public arising from unnecessarily dangerous conditions created by him on the land, where the consequences of a failure to do so are reasonably foreseeable.”
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.