36 App. D.C. 592 - Collins v. John W. Danforth Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1931
3 federal appellate ·
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 Baltimore Co v. Baugh · Northern Pac Co v. Peterson · Armour v. Hahn · Alaska Treadwell Gold Min. Co. v. Whelan · Martin v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the áct complained of “is not performed in the discharge of a duty devolving upon the master, there can be no liability, unless he has been guilty of some personal wrong which contributed directly to produce the injury.” Collins v. Danforth Co., supra, 36 App. D. C. 600 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Barner
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.