Crew v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Harris v. Dunham (1962), Durham v. National Pool Equipment Co. (1964)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Massie v. Firmstone · Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Godsey · Tennes v. Tennes · Bassett v. Wood · Tignor v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [I]n a personal injury case, if the plaintiff, a person of average intelligence and in possession of his faculties, while detailing the circumstances of the accident, clearly and unequivocally testifies to facts which show as a matter of law that he has no case, he is bound thereby and cannot recover.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wieringa v. Moody · Scott v. Foley“It is a matter of common knowledge that frequently a person's observation and recollection of swiftly moving events immediately preceding the crash in which he is severely injured are confused and distorted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that such testimony of the litigant has the force of a judicial admission.”
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.