Askin v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Greenfeld v. Hook (1939), Eisenhower v. Baltimore Transit Co. (1948)
4 district · 44 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. · Slacum v. Jolley · Taxicab Co. v. Ottenritter · Warner v. Markoe · Blinder v. Monaghan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * jje testified that he could not estimate its [defendant’s auto’s] speed, and in that he was probably right, as one is in no position to judge the speed of an oncoming car. One has to see a car go by to even be prepared to make a guess at its speed.””
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.