Engel v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 1962 · most notably Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Ives (1892), 64 Cal. App. 249 - Gornstein v. Priver (1923)
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Grand Rapids & Indiana R. R. v. Martin · Palmer v. Harrison
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . It is a sound rule of law that it is not contributory negligence not to look out for danger when there is no reason to apprehend any.” (p. 7.)”
3 later decisions 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.