Sheets v. Pendergrast’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2016
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Rindge v. Holbrook · Froh v. Hein · Leonard v. North Dakota Co-Operative Wool Marketing Ass'n · Geier v. Tjaden · Huus v. Ringo
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the driver voluntarily and deliberately directs his attention elsewhere than to the highway upon which he is driving and as a proximate result of his inattention, even though momentary, an accident occurs, the question of gross negligence is for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steel v. Downs
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.