Kilpatrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2017
15 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 Jacobs v. Jacobs · Kirk v. United Gas Public Service Co. · 80 So. 2d 206 - Reeves v. State · Dowden v. State ex rel. Department of Highways · 50 So. 2d 31 - Rosier v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The general rule has been recognized in our jurisprudence that a motorist using a public highway has a right to presume, and to act upon the presumption, that the highway is safe for usual and ordinary traffic, either in daytime or at night, and that he is not required to anticipate extraordinary danger, impediments, or obstructions, to which his attention has not been directed and of which he has not been warned. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the performance of this duty the character of the road and the probable traffic must be kept in view.”
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.