Snedden v. Summer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 1962
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ridenour v. Diffee · Jacobsen v. McGinness
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The physical facts speak more loudly than words in a situation such as that presented by the record before us. The impact of the McGinness and Jacobsen cars raised the Jacobsen car into the air and pushed it into the path of the Holthusen automobile. Despite Miss McGinness' testimony that she removed her foot from the accelerator and applied her brakes, the undisputed facts are that her car was traveling at a high rate of speed; ran headon into the Jacobsen automobile on the wrong side of the highway; pushed the Jacobsen vehicle back a distance of eleven feet and into the path of the Holthusen car, * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chapman v. Redwine
How this case has been treated — in progress
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