Eldredge v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 1971 · most notably Frazier v. Cities Service Oil Co. (1945), Sams v. Commercial Standard Insurance (1943)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 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 Sponable v. Thomas · Koster v. Matson · Jones v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Witt ex rel. Witt v. Roper · Deardorf v. Shell Petroleum Corp.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the absence of lights or -warning signals does not prevent a driver from seeing a vehicle in time to avoid it, the absence of lights or signals cannot be said to be the proximate cause of the collision. (Anderson v. Sterrit, 95 Kan. 483 , 148 Pac. 635 ; Cothran v. Cleenewerck & Son, 235 Mich. 351 , 209 N. W. 132 ; Amey v. Erb, 296 Pa. St. 561, 146 Atl. 141 .) See, also, McCausland v. File, 141 Kan. 120, 121, 122 , 40 P. 2d 323 , and cases therein cited.” (p. 830.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Curtiss v. Fahle““Plaintiff points to finding 9 that he was not guilty of contributory negligence. This finding was a general one, expressing the jury’s conclusion from facts found in detail which established contributory negligence as a matter of law. In such cases the general finding may be ignored, and judgment may be entered in accordance with the specific findings. (Citations).” (p. 134.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled that where the act found as negligence did not cause the injury complained of there can be no recovery.” (p. 141.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.