Hook v. Kirby’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1967
11 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 Burlie v. Stephens · Hartley v. Lasater · Ritter v. Johnson · Johnson v. J. C. Heitman · Sheffield v. Union Oil Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is true that the first collision of the cars and the subsequent impact of respondent's car with the tree occurred south of the intersection, the train of circumstances from which these resulted had its origin in the situation of the drivers as they entered the intersection. The testimony gives no color to the claim that respondent driver was attempting to pass appellants' car on the right in the sense forbidden by law. The testimony warrants the conclusion, evidently reached by the jury, that what respondent was trying to do was not to pass but to get out of the way of appellants' car to avoid injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Cadwell
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.