Farris v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1999
2 district · 20 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 Spackman v. Ralph M. Parsons Co. · Mally v. Asanovich · Rasmussen v. Sibert · Newman v. Kamp · Stordahl v. Rush Implement Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court long ago ruled on the liability of a person who negligently collides with another vehicle while attempting to pass. In the case of McDonough v. Smith, 86 Mont. 545, 550 , 284 P. 542, 544 , this Court held: “ ‘The person passing is negligent if he so carelessly directs or manages his automobile that a collision results, or if he attempts to pass in a time or under conditions which are not reasonably safe.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hendrickson v. Pocha“determined that [the] testimony encompasses a reasonable degree of medical [testimony].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the sum total of the [medical] testimony must contain a degree of medical certainty.”
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.