Alpern v. Churchill’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1944
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad v. Miller · Field v. . N.Y.C.R.R. · Higgins v. Dewey · Macomber v. Nichols · Beauchamp v. Saginaw Mining 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Negligence, like any other fact, may be inferred from the circumstances; and the case may be such that, though there be no positive proof that defendant has been guilty of any neglect of duty, the inference of negligence would be irresistible.” Alpern v. Churchill, 53 Mich. 607 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bacon v. Snashall““She was simply dealing with her own property in a customary and perfectly lawful way, interfering with no-one else, and neglecting no duty.’’”
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.