Meese v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2001
5 federal appellate · 19 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 Kelly v. Huber Baking Co. · Stern v. International Railway Co. · W., B. A.R. Co. v. State · Phelps Ex Rel. Phelps v. Board of County Commissioners · Llewellyn v. Queen City Dairy, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f [the driver] had respected the requirements [of the law], this accident would not have happened, as his was not only the proximate cause, but the only negligent act producing the injuries complained of....”
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.