Schlader v. Interstate Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2015
14 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 Salem v. United States Lines Company · Hoover's Dairy, Inc. v. Mid-America Dairymen, Inc./Special Products, Inc. · Kuper v. Lincoln-Union Electric Co. · Knapp v. Simmons · Haile v. Arkansas Power and Light 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All electricity leaving an electrical substation must return to that substation in order to complete a circuit. Unless that circuit is completed, electricity will not flow. The current leaves the substation on a high voltage line which eventually connects to some electrical “appliance.” After exiting the “appliance” that current must return to the substation. The neutral-grounded network provides the returning current two choices. Either it can return via the neutral line, which accounts for the second wire on our electrical poles, or it can return through the ground. These two pathways comprise the grounded-neutral network. Electricity flows through the path of lowest resistance. If there exists more resistance in the neutral line than in the ground, the current will flow through the ground to return to the substation. Neutral-to-earth voltage or stray voltage will occur when current moves from either the neutral line to the ground or from the ground to the neutral line. It uses a cow as a pathway if that animal happens to bridge the gap between the two. A cow’s hooves provide an excellent contact to the earth while standing on wet concrete or mud, while at the same time the cow is contacting the grounded-neutral system consisting of items such as metal stanchions, stalls, feeders, milkers, and waterers. The current simply uses the cow as a pathway in its eventual return to the substation. Apparently very slight voltages can affect cattle. Evidence [has] suggested anything ”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f all the primary facts can be accurately and intelligibly described to the jury, and if they, as [persons] of common understanding, are as capable of comprehending the primary facts and of drawing correct conclusions from them as are witnesses possessed of special or peculiar training, experience, or observation in respect of the subject under investigation, [expert testimony is not required].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A fact question is generated if reasonable minds can differ on how the issue should be resolved. The [plaintiffs] cited evidence by the milking equipment supplier that he discerned the voltage problems on their farm. There were also depositions of analysts reciting that the isolator or block installed by [the defendant] did decrease the voltage in the [plaintiffs’] milking parlor. There was also testimony from a veterinarian that related the health problems experienced by the [plaintiffs’] dairy herd..He also noted the improvement in the milking herd after the block or insulator was installed. According the [plaintiffs’] ‘every legitimate inference’ from their evidence, it cannot be said they have failed to show injuries to the dairy herd resulting from electric voltage in the milking parlor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loper v. JMAR
How this case has been treated — in progress
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