Kerr v. Forgue’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1923
21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Birge v. Gardiner · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Dewey · City of Chicago v. Starr
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A child can only exercise care and prudence equal to his capacity. Ordinary neglect as to a person of full age and capacity might be gross neglect as to a child. Hence the age and discretion of the child were the proper subjects of inquiry by the jury. The child is reckless and thoughtless; the man prudent and watchful.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glickson v. Shannon
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.