Johnson v. Prideaux’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1974 · most notably Seligman v. Hammond (1931), Dohm v. R. N. Cardozo Brother (1925)
26 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 Lauson v. Town of Fond du Lac
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * an automobile driver, who by the negligence of another and not by his own negligence is suddenly placed in an emergency and compelled to act instantly to avoid a collision or injury, is not guilty of negligence if he makes such a choice as a person of ordinary prudence placed in such a position might make, even though he did not make the wisest choice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““While the law requires the driver of an automobile to keep to the right when meeting another vehicle, one cannot be held guilty of negligence in unconsciously failing to do so where that is impossible by reason of circumstances over which he has no control and for which he is in no sense responsible. The defendant was confronted by an emergency which was not created by his own negligence, and in that emergency it would seem that he did the most prudent thing possible in bringing his car to an immediate stop. We apprehend that no more prudent action under the circumstances could be suggested, and it would be an anomaly to hold one guilty of negligence who acts with the care and prudence exercised by the defendant under the circumstances then confronting him.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McAleavy v. Lowe““It is plain that the decision of the trial court held him [defendant] to an impossible degree of care, owing to the complete obstruction of his vision by the dust. The court applied to him the same rule that would obtain if his vision was not obscured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haight v. Luedtke
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.