Long v. Whalen’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 1978 · most notably Jacobsen v. Poland (1957), Burhoop v. Brackhan (1957)
68 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 Hawkeye Casualty Co. v. Stoker · Borden v. General Insurance Co. of America · Stark v. Turner · Dorn v. Sturges · Miller v. Aitken
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is what is known as an intersection collision, and you are instructed that an intersection is a square bounded by extending the curb lines across both streets. “Ordinances of the City of Omaha have been received in evidence providing that when two motor vehicles reach or approach an intersection, the first one to enter the intersection has the right of way and the other must yield until the first one entering has cleared the intersection; and, when two motor vehicles reach the intersection at approximately the same time, the the driver of the motor vehicle to the right has the right of way and the other must yield until the one to the right has cleared the intersection. “You are instructed that a violation of the Ordinances is not negligence, but is evidence which you may take into consideration in arriving at your conclusion as to whether or not the one so violating is guilty of negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owen v. Moore
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.