Will v. Marquette’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1972
6 federal appellate · 11 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 Hansen v. Isaak · Pierson v. Jensen · Friese v. Gulbrandson · Kundert v. B. F. Goodrich Co. · Roberts v. Brown
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.
“20-9-2. Comparative negligence Reduction of damages. In all actions brought to recover damages for injuries to a person or to his property caused by the negligence of another, the fact that the plaintiff may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when the contributory negligence of the plaintiff was slight in comparison with the negligence of the defendant, but in such case, the damages shall be reduced in proportion to the amount of plaintiff's contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corey v. Kocer“all questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This jurisdiction does not recognize degrees of negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corey v. Kocer
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.