Larsen v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Gilbert v. E. B. Law & Son, Inc. (1955), Curtis v. Schwartzman Packing Company (1956)
38 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 Lessig v. Reading Transit & Light Co. · Payne v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Owen v. Appalachian Power Co. · Hill v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. · Seiwell v. Hines
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a reasonable conclusion that a blow sufficient to cause a car to leave the road would crush a material as flimsy as Masonite. But can we say because such an effect is reasonable and probable that any other effect is inherently impossible? * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hudson
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.