Becker v. Colonial Parking, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 1130 · 1969
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Canterbury v. Spence (1972), McCord v. Bailey (1980)
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Hitaffer v. Argonne Co. · Ross v. Hartman · Frank Munsey v. Wesley Webb T
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'... both negligence and causation must be proved before the plaintiff can have a verdict.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.