Freund v. Hyman’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2006
16 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 Lanni v. Pennsylvania Railroad · De Reeder v. Travelers Insurance · Burns v. City of Pittsburgh · Harrison Et Vir. v. Pennsylvania · Davis v. Potter
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff has the two-fold burden of proving that the defendant was negligent and that his negligence was the proximate cause of the accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crane v. Neal
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.