Bangs v. Keifer’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2014
2 federal appellate · 14 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 146 Ohio St. 657 - Bush v. Harvey Transfer Co. · Florke v. Peterson · Gibbs Ex Rel. Gibbs v. Wilmeth · Oakes v. Peter Pan Bakers, Inc. · Harris v. Clark
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an unforeseen combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action; (2) a perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; (3) a sudden or unexpected occasion for action, exigency, pressing necessity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Weiss v. Bal · Beyer v. Todd“is confronted by an emergency not of his own making, and by reason thereof he fails to obey the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Blair“as a careful and prudent person would act when suddenly placed in a similar position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berghammer v. Smith
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.