19 Md. App. 562 - Brown v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2017
20 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 Nizer v. Phelps · Merrifield v. C. Hoffberger Co. · People's Drug Stores, Inc. v. Windham · State, Use of Taylor v. Barlly · Tucker v. State Ex Rel. Johnson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such testimony has generally been admitted where all the transient physical conditions which the witness observed— tone of voice, expression of the face, the movement of the limbs-which indicated the injured person was in pain could not be reproduced for the jury in such precision and fullness as to impress the jury in the same manner as the observer was impressed and as to permit the jury to draw its own inference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he pedestrian, however, having looked before crossing and having seen no vehicle or a vehicle at a distance thought to be justifiably safe, has the right to assume that a motorist will respect his right-of-way. The question of contributory negligence, therefore, is usually for the jury.”
2 later decisions 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.