71 So. 2d 480 - Bartholf v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. (1964), Dagnello v. Long Island Rail Road (1961)
6 federal appellate · 62 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 Virginian Ry. Co. v. Armentrout · Smith v. Times Publishing Co. · German American Lumber Co. v. Brock · 46 So. 2d 396 - First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Wylie · Holstun & Son v. Embry
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Voluntary exposure is the bedrock upon which the doctrine of assumed risk rests. Appreciation of the danger is an essential to the defense of assumption of risk, or of contributory negligence, as is knowledge of the condition which creates the peril.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“so much greater than it should have been as to shock the judicial conscience,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We emphasized that the power of the trial judge to set aside a jury verdict is not in derogation of the right to jury trial, but is one of the historic safeguards of that right, existing to prevent the jury system itself from becoming capricious and intolerable, a power which trial courts should exercise unflinchingly. The”
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.