Reeves v. . Staley’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 1969 · most notably Bowen v. Gardner (1969), Cox v. Hennis Freight Lines (1952)
3 federal appellate · 38 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 Butner v. . Spease · Butner v. Spease · Powers v. S. Sternberg & Co. · Murray v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Murray v. . R. R.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the operator of an automobile, traveling upon a designated main traveled or through highway and approaching an intersecting highway, is under no duty to anticipate that the operator of an automobile approaching on such intersecting highway will fail to stop as required by the statute, and, in the absence of anything which gives, or should give notice to the contrary, he will be entitled to assume and to act upon the assumption, even to the last moment, that the operator of the automobile on the intersecting highway will act in obedience to the statute, and stop before entering such designated highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blalock v. Hart
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.