Smith v. Finkel’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2005
19 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 Kinderavich v. Palmer · Stevens v. Neligon · Butler v. Hyperion Theatre Co., Inc. · Deantonio v. New Haven Dairy Co. · Romansky v. Cestaro
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] failure to have a motor vehicle provided with brakes adequate safely to control its movement or to maintain them at all times in good working order is negligence per se, whether or not the defect is due to any negligence on the part of the owner or operator.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he liability of an operator would arise if at any time his brakes ceased to be in good working order without regard to negligence on his part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A violation of the statute constitutes negligence.”
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.