Green v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Sprinkle v. Davis (1940), Greear v. Noland Company (1955)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Knapp v. . Barrett · Washington & Old Dominion Railway Co. v. Zell's Administrator · Southern Railway Co. v. Bailey · Virginia & North Carolina Wheel Co. v. Chalkley · Director General v. Pence's Administratrix
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not the duty of pedestrians to make mathematical calculations before crossing streets in front of automobiles, but to exercise ordinary care for their safety”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krieger v. Doolittle
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.