Jacobs v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co. (1940), Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co. (1956)
7 federal appellate · 186 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Lauson v. Town of Fond du Lac · Beard v. Klusmeier · McCormack v. Robin · Rock v. American Const. Co. · Nessen v. City of New Orleans
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is well established in the jurisprudence of this state that a person using a public highway, especially in an incorporated city, has a right to presume and to act upon the presumption, that the way is safe for ordinary travel, even at night, and he is not required to be on the lookout for extraordinary dangers or obstructions to which his attention has not been called.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deichmann v. Gerard““The driver’s duty and responsibility is merely to be careful and avoid committing any act qf negligence or imprudence that might add to or increase the ordinary danger of the occupation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Centanni v. Ferrito
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.