Flynn v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Sargent v. Ross (1973), Nunneley v. Edgar Hotel (1950)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Lang v. New York Central Railroad · Pittsfield Cottonwear Manufacturing Co. v. Pittsfield Shoe Co. · Deschenes v. Concord & Montreal Railroad · Garland v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]t is not enough for a plaintiff to show that the defendant neglected a duty imposed by statute and that he would not have been injured if the duty had been performed. He must go further and show that his injury was caused by his exposure to a hazard from which it was the purpose of the statute to protect him.””
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.