Thomas v. . Winchester’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. (1916), Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc. (1965)
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 167 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If A. build a wagon and sell it to B., who sells it to 0., and 0. hires it to D., who, in consequence of the gross negligence of A. in building the wagon, is overturned and injured, D. cannot recover damages against A., the builder. A.’s obligation to build the wagon faithfully arises solely out of his contract with B. The public have nothing to do with it. Misfortune to third persons, not parties to the contract, would not be a natural and necessary consequence of the builder’s negligence, and such negligence is not an act Imminently dangerous to human life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The defendant’s duty arose out of the nature of his business and the dangers to others incident, to its mismanagement.””
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.