Haggerty v. Rain’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1968
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The position of the . . .• car immediately after the accident, as testified to by numerous witnesses, the indentation made by the axle on the cement, and the mark left by the skidding . . . create a physical situation which is decisive .not only as to the place of collision, but as to the physical impossibility of the accident having happened at the place designated by the defendant and his witnesses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holborn v. Coombs
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.