Barnowsky v. Helson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Blanton v. Dolb (1891), Pickwick Stages Corp. v. Messinger (1934)
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Quincy Mining Co. v. Kitts · Alpern v. Churchill
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the wall of a building falls down, and injures a person walking along the street or standing beside the building, the clear presumption is that the building was either negligently built, or that it was not kept in a reasonably safe condition after it was erected, since buildings properly constructed do not ordinarily fall of their own weight.” Followed in Gerstler v. Weinberg, 160 Mich. 267 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a thing happens which would not ordinarily have occurred if due care had been used, the fact of such happening raises a presumption of negligence in someone.””
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.