Bauer v. Kruger’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1999
14 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 Leonard v. North Dakota Co-Operative Wool Marketing Ass'n · Minder v. Peterson · Serbousek v. Stockman Motors, Inc. · Gravseth v. Farmers Union Oil Company of Minot · Vaux v. Hamilton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a traveler upon or across a highway is confronted by a sudden emergency created by the negligence of another and not by his own fault, he is not held to the same degree of care and prudence as is ordinarily demanded of a person who has time for deliberation and the full exercise of his judgment, and he is not guilty of contributory negligence if he acts as an ordinarily prudent person would act under like circumstances [citing Bauer v. Kruger, 114 N.W.2d 553 (N.D.1962); Gravseth v. Farmers Union Oil Co. of Minot, 108 N.W.2d 785 (N.D.1961); and Lostegaard v. Bauer, 78 N.D. 711 , 51 N.W.2d 761 (1952)].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is the established rule of this Court that questions of negligence, contributory negligence and proximate cause are questions of fact for the jury in a personal injury action unless the evidence is such that reasonable minds can draw but one conclusion therefrom. Leonard v. North Dakota Coop. Wool Marketing Association, 72 N.D. 310 , 6 N.W.2d 576 ; McCullagh v. Fortune, 76 N.D. 669 , 38 N.W.2d 771 ; Reservation Motor Corporation v. Mayer, 77 N.D. 431 , 43 N.W.2d 537 ; Skramstad v. Miller, 78 N.D. 450 , 49 N. W.2d 652 ; Goulet v. O’Keeffe, N.D., 83 N.W.2d 889 , 36 A.L.R.2d 8 ; Gravseth v. Farmers Union Oil Company of Minot, N.D., 108 N.W.2d 785 .” Bauer v. Kruger, N.D., 114 N.W.2d 553, at 556 .”
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.