Mills v. Springfield’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2013
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law does not require what is unreasonable, nor does it condemn an act or omission as negligent which can be done or - 11 - Clermont CA2012-10-072 prevented only by extraordinary exertion or by the expenditure of extraordinary sums of money incident to the removal of an unusual accumulation of snow and ice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * After all, pedestrians have the right to use a street when necessity therefor arises, and it would seem that a city should be obligated to exercise the same degree of care with respect to highways over which pedestrians are required to walk as that which is applicable to sidewalks.” 142 N.E.2d at 864 .”
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.