Loop v. . Litchfield’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. (1916), Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Deselms (1909)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So, if a horse defectively shod, is hired to another, and by reason of the negligent shoeing the horse stumbles, the rider is thrown and injured, no action lies against the smith. In these and numerous other cases put in the books, the answer to the action is that there is no contract with the party injured, and no duty arising to him by the party guilty of negligence.””
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.