Finney v. Frevel’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Ager v. Baltimore Transit Co. (1957), Brehm v. Lorenz (1955)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Benedick v. Potts · Morrison v. Clark · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. State ex rel. Savington · Askin v. Long · Shafer v. State Ex Rel. Sundergill
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reliance upon testimony alone of marks upon the road, even though clearly shown to be made by the defendant’s car, to establish negligence has never been favored by this Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larsen v. Romeo
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.