Jemison v. Pfeifer’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Reardon v. Meehan (1967), 262 Pa. Super. 473 - Junk v. East End Fire Department (1978)
3 federal appellate · 51 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 Miller v. Hickey · MacDougall v. Penna. Power & Light Co. · Potere v. Philadelphia · Wagner v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. · Hudson v. Grace
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Vigilance must always be commensurate with danger. A high degree of danger always calls for a high degree of care. The care to be exercised in a particular case must always be proportionate to the seriousness of the consequences which are reasonably to be anticipated as a result of the conduct in question. MacDougall v. Penna. Power & Light Co., 311 Pa. 387, 396 , 166 A. 589, 592 (1933); Jemison v. Pfeifer, 397 Pa. 81, 89 , 152 A.2d 697 (1959).”
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.