Hess v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1995
13 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 Seith v. Commonwealth Electric Co. · Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. Schmidt · Arkansas Valley Trust Co. v. McIlroy · Cole v. German Savings & Loan Soc. · The Santa Rita
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.
“"* * * If the ambulance was coming at 50 miles per hour, as one witness testified, it might suggest to a reasonable man that the ambulance probably would not stop, or at least raise a reasonable apprehension of danger. If, on the other hand, as defendants testified, the ambulance was coming only 25 miles per hour (the course being upgrade), an ordinarily prudent man may conclude that the driver had his car under control and would stop as required by law at the stop sign. As to what the circumstances were at the time plaintiff entered the intersection, and as to whether entering under such circumstances was an act from which a person of ordinary prudence and caution would have foreseen that some injury would likely result, are matters upon which reasonable minds may differ. As such they are properly for the jury. * * *"”
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.