Flanders v. Crane Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Hinson v. Cameron (1987), Buckner v. General Motors Corp. (1988)
2 federal appellate · 88 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 Stuckey v. Young Exploration Co. · Flick v. Crouch · Northrip v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Brickner v. Gooden · Miller v. Price
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"a. A party may move for judgment in his favor on the ground that the depositions, admissions in the pleadings, stipulations, answers to interrogatories and to requests for admissions, affidavits, and exhibits on file ... show that there is no substantial controversy as to any material fact ... b. If the adverse party ... wish[es] to oppose the granting of the motion, they shall serve on the moving party and file ... a concise written statement of the material facts as to which he or they contend a genuine issue exists ... The adverse party shall attach to the statement affidavits and other material containing facts that would be admissible in evidence ...””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of the risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact, and shall, at all times, be left to the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, assumption of the risk ... need not be submitted to a jury in cases where the plaintiff fails to present evidence tending to show primary negligence on the part of the defendant, and second, ... where, upon undisputed facts, reasonable people exercising fair and impartial judgment could not reasonably reach differing conclusions concerning them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.