Scrizzi v. Baraw’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1997
20 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 Grow v. Wolcott · Jerke v. Delmont State Bank · Merrill v. Reed · Eastman v. Williams · Russell v. Pilger
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even in the operation of a private vehicle, the law requires the operator to govern his speed and maintain a reasonably safe distance behind the vehicle he is following to provide for the contingency of the lead vehicle coming to a sudden halt. In this situation, failure to so control the factors of time and space which results in the misfortune of injury constitutes negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. Barnes“The right to set aside a verdict is based, ultimately on the proposition that an injustice would result from permitting the verdict to stand. Verdicts are not lightly to be disregarded, for it is the proper province of the jury to settle questions of fact. [Citations omitted.] Scrizzi v. Baraw, 127 Vt. 315, 322 , 248 A.2d 725 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it will not avail [a party] to say that he looked and did not see what he could not help seeing if he had looked,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. State
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.