Cobb v. Twitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. (1964), 593 So. 2d 500 - McCain v. Florida Power Corporation (1992)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad v. Van Steinburg · Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway Co. v. Peninsular Land, Transportation & Manufacturing Co. · Wilson ex rel. Otis v. Jernigan · Consumers Electric Light & Street Railroad v. Pryor · Geo. E. Wood Lumber Co. v. Gipson ex rel. Gilmore
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.
“Its (fire's) treacherous propensities are within the common knowledge of all prudent persons, and one setting out a fire must use care to prevent it from damaging his neighbor in proportion to the risk reasonably and ordinarily to be anticipated by a prudent person under the circumstances. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The degree of care required to be used in any given case to avoid the imputation of negligence must be according to the circumstances or in proportion to the danger reasonably to be anticipated; such care as is ordinarily sufficient under similar circumstances to avoid danger and secure safety.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"When the question of negligence depends upon a disputed state of facts, or when the facts, though not disputed, are such that different minds may reasonably draw different conclusions from them, the question is for the jury." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.