Hill v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2015
9 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 Chappell v. White · Keen v. Harman · Smith v. Turner · Woodrum v. Holland · Conant v. Collins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No reasonable estimate of the rate of speed of the truck can be made from the tracks described in this record. "The burden was on the plaintiff to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the host operated his truck in such manner as to show `an utter disregard of prudence amounting to complete neglect of the safety' of his guest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turk v. Turk“the only reasonable inference that can be drawn from all the evidence is that, while defendant was driving carefully and `at a fair rate of speed' around the curve, the rear wheels of the vehicle were caught in the depressions or ruts * * * and that defendant, in attempting to steer the car out of the trap, lost control * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turk v. Turk“Whether the acts and conduct of the operator of a motor vehicle under given circumstances constitute gross negligence is generally a question of fact to be determined by a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turk v. Turk
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.