Doss v. Rader’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1987
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Baker v. . Close · Green v. Ruffin · Peoples v. Fulk · Garrison v. Burns · Otey v. Blessing
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the jury that the law does not undertake to apportion or balance the negligence of the parties to a lawsuit where both the plaintiff and defendant are at fault in order to determine which is most at fault. The plaintiff may not recover from the defendants if he was guilty of any degree of negligence which proximately caused or contributed to cause the collision. “Accordingly, even if you believe from a preponderance of the evidence that the defendants were negligent, and that their negligence proximately contributed to cause the collision, if you further believe from the evidence that the plaintiff was also negligent and that his negligence proximately contributed to cause the collision, then you must return your verdict for the defendants.””
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.