Ross v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1976
7 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 Hessler v. Bellamy · Merchants Bank v. Dunn · Edwards v. York · Christoffersen v. Weir · Davis v. Wallace
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the above rule, this evidence is sufficient to support a finding that the defendants’ truck was driven upon the wrong side of the road into a blind corner, where visibility was limited to 40 feet ahead, at a speed of thirty miles an hour, without the sounding of a horn, and that the Ford in which plaintiff’s husband was riding as a passenger was upon its own side of the road.” Ross v. Carroll, 138 Neb. 1 , 291 N. W. 726 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Carroll
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.