Leonard v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2010
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Pitchfork Land and Cattle Company v. King · Dee v. Parish · S.A. Gerrard Co., Inc. v. Fricker · Loe Et Ux v. Lenhard · McKennon v. Jones
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.
“The record reflects that the use of aerial application of poisonous herbicides as 2,4-D, and 2,4,5-T are extremely dangerous, especially when conducted around or near broad-leaf plants as cotton. And an employer is liable for injuries caused by the failure of an independent contractor to exercise due care with respect to the performance of work which is inherently or intrinsically dangerous .... (T)he aerial spraying of chemical defoliants and herbicides are activities having such potential for injury as to be classed as inherently dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frazier v. Moeller
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.