Bezdek v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Money v. Flowers (2008), Guynan v. Olson (1965)
22 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 Borcherding v. Eklund · Whitaker v. Keogh · Simcho v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. · Roby v. Auker · Paddack v. Patrick
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If appellant was guilty of negligence it continued up until the moment of impact. Under this situation the following is controlling: ‘A person who is himself negligent may not recover under the doctrine of the last clear chance where his negligence is active and continuing to the very time of the accident. Such a situation involves questions of comparative negligence and not those of the last clear chance doctrine.’ Trumbley v. Moore, 151 Neb. 780 , 39 N.W.2d 613, 614 . ***"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davies v. Dugan
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.