Ratliff v. Nau’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1964
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether grading contractors left dynamite caps on premises of lessee injured by their explosion held for jury. “The evidence showed that the grading contractors had been blasting near the premises in question; that they used the same kind and brand of dynamite caps as were found upon the lot where the explosion occurred immediately after it occurred; that the contractors passed over, lounged upon, placed their tools upon, and used the lot where the explosion occurred during their blasting operations; that during the blasting operations the road was closed and was not accessible to other persons known to have been using dynamite caps; and that no other persons were blasting in the vicinity. “2. Whether contractor’s leaving •dynamite caps on lot was negligence and proximate cause of injuries from explosion to lessee of premises held for jury.””
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.