Early v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2007
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Wilhelm v. State of Maryland Traffic Safety Commission · Alamo v. Del Rosario · Jones v. Miller · American Marietta Co. v. Griffin · D. C. Transit Systems, Inc. v. Simpkins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the disability first emerged coincidentally with or very soon after the negligent act, or (2) the disability was of a type which by its very nature reflected its cause, or (3) the cause of the injury related to matters of common experience, knowledge, or observation of laymen.”
2 later decisions 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.