Keeler v. Baumgardner’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1955
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Hogg v. Plant · Clark v. Hugo · Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Wellons · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Nickel · Peninsula Produce Exchange, Inc. v. Upshur
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If from all of the evidence the jury could reasonably find that, regardless of the state of negligence of the plaintiff, the defendant, by the exercise of ordinary care, had a clear chance to save him,, and -failed to do so then an instruction on the doctrine [of the last clear chance] is-justified. In cases such as the one here, where a defendant is required by laW to keep a proper lookout, the test is, not whether he actually saw the plaintiff in time to have saved him, but whether he could have seen him in time to have avoided the injury, iby exercising ordinary care, and failed to do so.” [ 161 Va. 507 , 171 S.E. 595 .]”
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.