Williams v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Country Maid Dairy, Inc. v. Hunter (1967), Stehn v. Bernarr MacFadden Foundations, Inc. (1970)
12 federal appellate · 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 Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Black Hills v. Hubbard · Brown v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company · Osborn v. City of Nashville · Smith v. Sloan · 46 Tenn. App. 1 - Sadler v. Draper
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is accordingly, in our opinion, no basis on which this case should have been submitted to the jury, unless under the circumstances of this case the operator of this motor vehicle in the exercise of ordinary care should have looked under and all around the automobile before getting in and taking off. It seems that merely to state the question is to give the answer that ordinary care would make no such, requirement. No case has been cited to that effect and the rule otherwise is practically universal.” Williams v. Jordan, supra, pp. 460-461 , 346 S.W.2d p. 585.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The question of the defendant's liability lawfully can be withdrawn from the jury and determined by the court as a question of law, when and only when the facts are undisputable, being stipulated, found by the court or jury, or established by evidence that is free from conflict, and when the inference from the facts is so certain that all reasonable men, in the exercise of a fair and impartial judgment, must agree upon it.' [cases cited]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.