Connell v. Petri’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1979
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 Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. v. Webb · Blocker v. Blocker · Florida Motor Transportation Co. v. Hillman · White v. Hughes
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.
“"... children were `all up and down the highway.'" * * * * * * "This factor alone should have been of sufficient import to place a reasonably prudent driver upon notice to exercise due care in the operation of his vehicle. This condition of fact being true, the speed of the car should have been reduced from that at which it was traveling to meet exigencies that might arise such as the one before us in this case."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Children are necessarily lacking in the knowledge of physical causes and effects which is usually acquired only through experience. They must be expected to act upon childish instincts and impulses, and must be presumed to have less ability to take care of themselves than adults have.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... children were `all up and down the highway.'”
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.