Peck v. Garfield’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1 · 1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2020
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Wagenmann v. Adams · Altman v. Aronson · Hubbard v. Faros Fisheries, Inc. · Joia v. Jo-Ja Service Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doubtless there may be cases so near the borderline that a tribunal whose duty it is to apply only legal principles cannot reverse the factual conclusion embodied in a verdict. The power so to do must be exercised with the utmost caution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the speed of the vehicle, the circumstances and conditions at the site of the accident, and the length of any inattentiveness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only momentary inattentiveness may be gross negligence in a place of great danger or while traveling at high speed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.