Miller v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2012
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Cushing Refining & Gasoline Co. v. Deshan · St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Brown · Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Savage · Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Ward · Springfield Fire Marine Ins. Co. v. Oliphant
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The defendant was required to operate his car in conformity with the provisions of section 14, chapter 113, S.L.1933 (47 Okl.St.Ann. § 92) which so far as pertinent read as follows: ‘Any person driving a vehicle on a highway shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed not greater than nor less than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to the traffic, surface and width of the highway and of any other conditions then existing, and no person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitney v. Douglas““It is the duty of a driver of an automobile traveling by night to have such a headlight as will enable him to see in advance the face of the highway and to discover obstacles in his path, in time for his own safety, and to keep such control of his car as will enable him to stop and avoid obstructions that fall within his vision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitney v. Douglas“Whether there has been an exercise of proper care in a given case is ordinarily a question of fact to be determined by a jury or where a jury is waived by the court from all of the cireum-stances surrounding the transaction.”
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.