Hill v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1975 · most notably Nees v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co. (1944), 121 So. 2d 763 - Nomey v. Great American Indemnity Company (1960)
33 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 Overstreet v. Ober · 6 La. App. 703 - Roberts v. Eason · 12 La. App. 359 - Swedman v. Standard Oil Co. · Henican v. Woodman · Stromer v. Dupont
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We recognize and approve the rule of law that a following driver should drive at such a speed and maintain such an interval that he can avoid collision with the leading car, under circumstances which should reasonably be anticipated by him. We do not think the established facts in the instant case called for any anticipation on the part of plaintiff of the gross negligence of defendant’s driver in abruptly stopping his truck, without any signal or conduct suggesting such action or any apparent circumstance calling for it.”.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Conditions in the country differ so greatly from those in a city, and in a city, in different sections and on different occasions, that no hard and fast rule can be laid down. Each case must be decided according to its own peculiar conditions.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In trailing other cars, a motorist must govern his ‘speed or keep back a reasonably safe distance- so as to provide for the contingency of a car in front'suddenly stopping, and so that-he can stop without a collision, or can turn out sufficiently to pass the vehicle in front without going across the street in-the way of traffic approaching from the opposite direction, * * *.””
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.