Nebel v. Burrelli’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably Frank v. W. S. Losier Co., Inc. (1949), Kopka v. Bell Telephone Co. of Pa. (1952)
5 federal appellate · 36 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 Liguori v. Philadelphia · Biehl, Admr. v. Rafferty · Farlow v. Kelly · Letts v. Cole · Archer Et Vir v. Pittsburgh Rwys. 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n weighing the question of responsibility for the accident a jury cannot fairly dispose of the case without having both parties before it so as to enable it to determine which of the operators was negligent, or whether both were at fault[.]”
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.