Duval v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1981
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was his duty to look effectively for approaching cars and he is chargeable with seeing what he could have seen had he so looked. He stepped directly from behind a parked car directly into the path of the defendant’s car when the latter was dangerously near to him. The defendant’s motion for a directed verdict on the ground the evidence does not show the plaintiff free from contributory negligence should have been granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Diamond
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.