Winburn v. Vander Vorst’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2008
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Pierson v. Jensen · Ruth v. Vroom · King v. Farmers Educational & Cooperative Oil Co. · Lostegaard v. Bauer · Stammerjohan v. Sims
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And in the absence of reasonable grounds to think otherwise, it is not negligence to assume that he is not exposed to danger which can come to him only from violation of law or duty by some other person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No exception was taken to this instruction and it is therefore the law of this case.”
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.