Norberg v. Hagna’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2008
19 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 Bolster v. City of Lawrence · Johnston v. District of Columbia · Chafor v. City of Long Beach · City of Chicago v. Seben · Harper v. City of Topeka
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“same law that requires a municipal corporation to keep its streets free from nuisances, and reasonably safe for those who lawfully use them, also imposes upon it the duty to keep its public parks and other public places in a reasonably safe condition for all who lawfully frequent and use them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““While the question whether the placing of a diving board in such a place constitutes negligence is a question of fact for a jury to determine, yet for the purposes of this appeal we must hold that the complaint states a cause of action in that behalf.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A municipal corporation is liable for negligence in permitting obstructions or defects in its streets and sidewalks.”
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.