Benedict v. Andersen’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1974
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Dennert · Bolio v. Scholting · Taylor v. J. M. McDonald Co. · Granger v. Byrne · Hughes v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When one, being in a place of safety, sees or could have seen the approach of a moving vehicle in close proximity to him and suddenly moves from the place of safety into the path of such vehicle and is struck, his own conduct constitutes contributory negligence more than slight in degree, as a matter of law, and precludes recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blum v. Brichacek
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.