Kirkpatrick v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1981
17 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 Southland Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Cotten · Austin & Northwestern Railroad v. Cluck · Edens-Birch Lumber Co. v. Wood · A. B. C. Storage & Moving Co. v. Herron · Smith v. Triplett
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no contention that the accident was intentionally caused. The contention is that the appellant, Blair Kirkpatrick, in his driving of the automobile was heedless and reckless in his management of same. That his driving the automobile on and over the narrow and dangerous curve in the road as it approached the narrow one-way bridge at the speed with which he operated the automobile, knowing, the condition, situation and difficulties of the road and bridge on and over which he was passing, after being cautioned as to same, and after being requested to moderate the speed of the car and which he failed to observe or do, his so operating the automobile was in heedless and reckless disregard of the safety of Miss Neal and the other occupants of the car. The evidence raised each of the issues submitted to the jury, and abundantly supported the answers givpn to same. These assignments are overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fancher v. Cadwell“"It is believed that as the term `proximate cause' has a well settled and long established legal meaning, that such meaning in the language usually used in expressing same is all that is required in embodying same in a charge to the jury, and this without regard to the quality of the act of negligence alleged, this going only to the degree of relief authorized by law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gottschalk v. Rudes
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.