Cohee v. Hutson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1969
9 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 Stout v. Gallemore · Koster v. Matson · Anderson v. Anderson · Aduddell ex rel. Aduddell v. Brighton · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Walters
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant’s natural concern for his own safety, and for the safety of his own property, his truck, and his cattle, as well as all the other circumstances revealed by the record, precluded any assumption that he shifted his truck gears with reckless unconcern whether plaintiff might be injured thereby.” (p. 788.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donelan v. Wright
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.