Fairchild v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1956
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 Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. Samuel Calhoun · Rosse v. St. Paul & Duluth Railway Co. · Anderson v. Settergren · Bibb Broom Corn Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · National Casket Co. v. Powar
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.
““* * * it is to be observed that the statute creates no duty on the part of an automobile driver to conform to a specified rate of speed, but simply furnishes a rule of evidence in proving negligent or improper speed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Engel
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.