Landis v. Wick’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1951
7 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 Martin v. Herzog · Moore v. Hart · Martin v. Oregon Stages, Inc. · Emmons v. Southern Pac. Co. · Hart v. Farris
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not believe that plaintiff’s status was that of a trespasser as he proceeded along the common highway, nor do we believe that by his omission to display the required reflector he had converted himself into a nuisance. He had a right to be where he was. His rights were not less than those of a motorist who is proceeding along the highway in violation of some section of our motor vehicle act, for instance, a motorist who fails to display a tail-light or who illuminates only one of his headlights. * * * A motorist or a bicyclist, who violates some section of our motor vehicle law, does not thereby forfeit his civil rights. His disregard of the law affects his rights against another only if it contributed to Ms injury(Italics ours.)”
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.