Gabel v. Hanby’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 1991 · most notably Kansas State Bank & Trust Co. v. Specialized Transportation Services, Inc. (1991), Kendrick v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (1958)
58 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 Robinson v. Short · Hendren ex rel. Hendren v. Snyder · Houdashelt v. State Highway Commission · Crowe v. Moore · Marley v. Wichita Transportation Corp.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of one driving an automobile upon a public highway to look ahead and see vehicles and objects in the line of his vision, and in case of an accident he will be conclusively presumed to have seen what he could and should have seen in the proper performance of his duty.” (Syl. 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Mohl““In considering the special findings, the court is not permitted to isolate certain findings and ignore others. All are to be considered together and if one interpretation leads to inconsistency and another leads to harmony with the general verdict, the latter is to be adopted.””
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.