Gosma v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1970 · most notably 116 So. 2d 421 - Tamiami Gun Shop v. Klein (1959), Cowden v. Crippen (1936)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 Schell v. DuBois · Buckey v. White · Commercial Building & Loan Ass'n v. Mackenzie · Crosby v. Donaldson · Hooper v. Creager
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where it appears from all of the evidence as in this case that the injury occurred at a street intersection at a time when the plaintiff driving an automobile was attempting to pass the defendant driving another automobile at that place, and that the ordinance of the city prohibited such passing by the plaintiff, the question of contributory negligence of the defendant became a matter of law to be charged by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Any vehicle in overtaking another shall pass to the left, but such passage shall not be made at street intersections, except where traffic is controlled; that is, where there is a traffic officer stationed or where there is an automatic signal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Sumner“The question as to whether or not the plaintiff at that place was passing, or attempting to pass, the defendant, was a question of fact for the jury to determine.”
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.