Frazier v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Martin v. City of Washington (1993), Layton v. Palmer (1958)
62 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · McCloskey Ex Rel. McCloskey v. Koplar · Prest-O-Lite Co. v. Skeel · Harke v. Haase · Borgstede v. Waldbauer
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.
““In Boles v. Dunham, Mo.App., 208 S.W. 480 [3], the court held it was error to refuse a defendant’s instruction presenting the converse of plaintiff’s case, stating: ‘Defendant was undoubtedly entitled to it.’ See Davis v. Springfield Hospital, Mo.App., 196 S.W. 104 , 108 [4].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In specific negligence cases turning on circumstantial evidence the proof should establish the desired inference with such certainty as to cause it to be the more reasonable and probable of the conclusions to be drawn, (citing cases)”.”
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.