Waguespack v. Savarese’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1973
18 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 Lorance v. Smith · Lawrason v. Richard · Washington & Old Dominion Railway Co. v. Zell's Administrator · 21 Ohio App. 322 - Kronenberg v. Whale
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A driver, therefore, proceeding on the right side of the traveled -way, may assume that the driver of a vehicle ap.proaching on the same, side, or on his left hand side, will do all that a reasonably prudent person, under all the circumstances, would do to avoid a collision, which ordinarily would be to yield half the way or to turn out in time to avoid a collision, and that such driver will not force him, in violation of the statute or ordinance, or the law of the road, to turn from the part of the road on which he is lawfully driving.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"There is no joint adventure, in the sense that the occupant of an automobile is equally liable with the driver unless there be also equal right to control the operation of the automobile."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * it is hard to understand how these cars could have come to rest in those positions * * *.”
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.