Ritchie v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1986
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Murray Ex Rel. Murray v. Pearson Appliance Store · Buresh v. George · Guerin v. Forburger · Bezdek v. Patrick · Greyhound Corp. v. Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The basis of the foregoing general rule is that the driver of an automobile is legally and mandatorily obligated to keep such a lookout that he can see what is plainly visible before him and to operate his automobile in such a manner that he can stop it and avoid collision with any object in front of him’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chlopek v. Schmall“Consequently, resolving all inferences in favor of the defendant, we hold that the defendant was guilty of negligence as a matter of law under the circumstances of this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newkirk v. Kovanda
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.