Scheibel v. Hillis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Gibson v. Brewer (1997), Krause v. US Truck Co., Inc. (1990)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 100 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 Zuber v. Clarkson Construction Co. · Tharp Ex Rel. Tharp v. Monsees · Price v. Seidler · Charlton v. Jackson · Wise v. Towse
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Plaintiff could be compelled by motion. . . to plead more specifically or by interrogatories to give more information. . . but this does not mean the petition does not state a cause of action in its present form. A pleader is required to state only the ultimate facts and it is not necessary to plead the facts or circumstances by which the ultimate facts will be established."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[i]n an action for negligence, generally, a plaintiff must allege ultimate facts which if proven, show: (1) the existence of a duty on the part of the defendant to protect the plaintiff from injury; (2) failure of the defendant to perform that duty; and (3) injury to the plaintiff resulting from such failure.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the foreseeable likelihood that a third person may act in a particular manner is one of the hazards which makes a person negligent, such an act of a third party, whether innocent, negligent, intentionally tortious or criminal, does not prevent that person from, being liable for the harm caused thereby.”
3 later decisions 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.