Harnau v. Haight’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1954
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad v. Van Steinburg · Guggenheim v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. · Richter v. Harper · Wright v. Crane · Line v. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He is required by law to have such lights as will show objects immediately in front of him, and he must have his machine under such control as not to overtake and run down people within the scope of his lights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ott v. Wilson“"Such testimony should not be rejected unless it is clearly apparent that it can be of no value to the jury. Its weight is, of course, to be determined entirely by them,” citing cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faulkner v. Payne
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.