Camp v. . Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably Webel v. Yale University (1939), Bunnell v. Waterbury Hospital (1925)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie facte proved justified the jury in finding that it was dangerous 1<> leave the door open, and that persons not familiar with the. premises might, in tin' siighttime, without being chargeable with negligence, mistake tlfix? door for the street door, and go onto the awning, under the impression that they were going onto the sidewalk.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Gernat
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.