Winburn v. Vander Vorst’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1986
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Federal Land Bank of Omaha v. Houck · Friese v. Gulbrandson · Kundert v. B. F. Goodrich Co. · Flanagan v. Slattery · 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.
“To refine the inquiry to the point where negligence is found as a matter of law but is recognized as only `slight' according to the measure of the jury, presents difficulties of the same kind but on a magnified scale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corey v. Kocer“Needless to say we are in a difficult field of law. To draw the line on cases where contributory negligence is shown as a matter of law has been a difficult problem for courts.”
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.