Rhoades v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Von Roy v. Whitescarver (1955), Danner v. Cunningham (1952)
9 federal appellate · 27 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 Hooker v. Hancock · Green v. Ruffin · Meade v. Saunders · 102 W. Va. 541 - Ritter v. Hicks · Hoover v. J. P. Neff & Son, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mathematics of the problem show that if the defendant had been approaching lawfully, plaintiff would not have been mistaken in thinking it was safe to cross. If she had proceeded at an average walk, and he had been running 50 miles an hour, he would still have been some distance from her when she completed the crossing. It was, we think, a question of fact and not of law whether she failed to exercise reasonable care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopson v. Goolsby
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.