Gleson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably State v. Skjonsby (1982), Kuehn v. Garcia (1979)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Shields v. County of Buffalo · Grenz v. Werre · Degenstein Ex Rel. Degenstein v. Ehrman · Regent Cooperative Equity Exchange v. Johnston's Fuel Liners, Inc. · Sullwold v. Hoger
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Tn an action for damages growing out of the collision of motor vehicles the admission in evidence of testimony as to the speed of one of them from a point about i/⅜ mile from the scene of the accident to within 200 to 300 feet from the scene of the accident was within the discretion of the trial court.” [¶ 16 of Syllabus.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Nettum““Questions of negligence, contributory negligence, and proximate cause ordinarily are questions for the jury. It is only when the record is such that reasonable men can draw but one conclusion therefrom that such questions become questions of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.