Starnes v. Stofferahn’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Nelson v. Nelson Cattle Co. (1994), Westover v. East River Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (1992)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 Bartlett v. Gregg · Parham v. Dell Rapids Township in Minnehaha County · Kundert v. B. F. Goodrich Co. · Ford v. Robinson · Ford v. Mount Tom Sulphite Pulp Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Contributory negligence is conduct for which plaintiff is responsible, amounting to a breach of duty which the law imposes upon persons to protect themselves from injury, and which, concurring and cooperating with actionable negligence for which defendant is responsible, contributes to the injury complained of as a proximate cause.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Berg · Howard v. Sanborn“Where the evidence establishes that the plaintiff was beyond reasonable dispute guilty of negligence more that slight it is the duty of the court to direct a verdict for the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Theunissen v. Brisky
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.