Wilson v. Cyrus’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1972
8 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 Keir v. Trager · Jones v. McCullough · Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Salts · Fowler v. Mohl · Hudson v. Yellow Cab & Baggage 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The law is well established that the operator of an automobile may assume that others using the highway will observe the law of the road, and one is not guilty of negligence in acting upon such assumption unless and until he has knowledge to the contrary. ( Keir v. Trager, 134 Kan. 505 , 7 P.2d 49 , 81 A.L.R. 181 ; Jones v. McCullough, 148 Kan. 561 , 83 P.2d 669 ; Smith v. Salts, 170 Kan. 313 , 224 P.2d 1025 .) It is equally well settled that as a matter of law one is not guilty of negligence who does not look for danger where there is no reason to apprehend any. ( Fowler v. Mohl, 172 Kan. 423, 427 , 241 P.2d 517 .) ..."”
2 later decisions 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.