McCarthy v. Ference’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Mascaro v. Youth Study Center (1987), Foley v. the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Co. (1949)
3 federal appellate · 46 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 Chicago St Ry Co v. Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Ass'n · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Pittsburgh · Fitzpatrick v. Penfield · Pope v. Reading Company · Doulin v. State
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that 'a landowner is not subject to liability for bodily harm caused to others outside his land by a natural condition of the land, even though he recognizes or should recognize the natural condition involved a risk of such harm,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The duty of a municipality or of the Commonwealth itself to provide for the safety of the travelers on a public road is something wholly distinct from the duty of the adjacent landowners not to impair such safety by negligence in the maintenance of their own lands beyond the highway limits where such lands had been artificially changed from their natural state. The liability of the Commonwealth or municipality and the liability of the abutting owners under such circumstances are not mutually exclusive but dual and co-existent. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Warnings were numerous. A multitude of witnesses testified that from 1928 when the road was opened until 1942 when the accident happened there were numerous land slides and falls of rock upon the highway, some comparatively slight in volume but others of sufficient magnitude to require the temporary closing of the road to traffic in whole or in part . . . the street obtained a notorious reputation as a dangerous highway . . .”
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.