Imogene Driver v. Worth Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Strakos v. Gehring (1962), State v. Wentz (1991)
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 Holland v. Nimitz · Holland v. Nimitz · Texas Employers Insurance v. Kennedy · City of Terrell v. Howard · Roberts v. . Town of Eaton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Question: Do you find and believe from a preponderance of the evidence that at the time of and immediately before the happening in question the defendant failed to have a barricade on the new concrete roadway at its intersection with Merritt Street sufficient to prevent the traveling public from entering upon such roadway? ■ Answer: No.” (Emphasis ours.)”
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.