Schmeling v. Jorgensen’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Mulder v. Tague (1971), Bartlett v. Gregg (1958)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Fitzgerald Mallory Const Co v. Fitzgerald · Plumb v. . Richmond Light R.R. Co. · Pew v. First National Bank · Rowan v. Becker · Beasley v. Bond
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he intervening cause must be a superseding cause. It must so entirely supersede the operation of the defendant's negligence that it alone, without his negligence contributing thereto, produces the injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]egligence, to render a person liable, need not by the sole cause of injury, but it is sufficient that his negligence concurring with one or more efficient negligent acts of third persons, is a proximate cause of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“those who serve gratuitously are excluded from its purview.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Platt v. Meier
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.