Gobrecht v. Beckwith’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably 49 Cal. 2d 720 - Dow v. Holly Manufacturing Co. (1958), Vetter v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (1935)
8 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Stevens v. United Gas & Electric Co. · Tuttle v. Dodge · Dustin v. Curtis · Kambour v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Towne v. Thompson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a duty to use care is imposed and where knowledge is necessary to careful conduct, voluntary ignorance is equivalent to negligence.”
1 later decision 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.