Sheets v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1975
19 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 St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Guthrie · Crowe v. Moore · Jones v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Zinn ex rel. Zinn v. Updegraff
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under ordinary circumstances a freight train standing across a highway on a dark and foggy night will sufficiently reveal itself to travelers exercising due care in the operation of auto vehicles which are equipped with proper lights and which are driven at a proper rate of speed under the conditions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corkill v. Thompson
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.