Leonard v. Bartle’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2004
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Massaletti v. Fitzroy · Glavin v. Rhode Island Hospital · Basabo v. the Salvation Army, Inc. · Boss v. Providence & Worcester Railroad · Beerman v. Union R. R. Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinary care is such care as a person of ordinary prudence exercises under the circumstances of the danger to be apprehended. The greater the danger the higher the degree of care required to constitute ordinary care, the absence of which is negligence. It is a question of degree only. The kind of care is precisely the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawton v. Vadenais
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.