Feir v. Weil’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1983
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Inland Steel Co. v. Yedinak · Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk Mills · Evers v. Davis · American Car & Foundry Co. v. Armentraut · Sims v. Everhardt
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The child may show that his injury resulted from the negligence of the master, merely by showing a violation of the statute, provided such violation contributed directily to the injury or was the efficient cause of the injury of which the plaintiff complains; that such proximate cause might arise from the fact of the child's immaturity, rendering the child incapable of appreciating the dangers in which he was placed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“factory, workshop, mill or place where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on.”
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.