Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.2d 243 · 1935
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Black Hills v. Hubbard (1953), Christie v. Callahan (1941)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Grzboski v. Bernheimer-Leader Stores · Lincoln Nat. Life Ins. v. Erickson · Chicago, B. & Q. R. v. Kelley · Chicago M., ST. P. & P. R. R. v. Linehan
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of defendant with reference to the safety of these premises, however, was a continuing one, and was not necessarily discharged by a single act of ‘cleaning every morning.’ If, during the day, the premises became unsafe for the use of customers, they could not properly be left in such condition until the morning cleaning process might again place them in safe condition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.