Johnston v. Selfe’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1967
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Samonthia v. Ahasay · Martin v. Tracy
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The boulevard stop signs do not require cars to enter the arterial street at their peril but only to exercise ordinary care with regard to the traffic on the through street before entering thereon. * * * “The operators of cars upon such through streets are bound to operate them with reasonable care as to the traffic entering from the side streets. * * * “After the Hall car had stopped for the intersection, the usual rules in regard to right of way applied. Jacobsen v. Ahasay, 188 Minn. 179 , 246 N.W. 670 . Section 2720-21, Mason’s Minn.St.1927, which authorizes the establishment of arterial highways does not in any way modify other statutes which control right of way and speed. * * * “If defendant was traveling at an unreasonable, improper, and unlawful speed, he forfeited his right of way under the statute, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nielsen v. Richman
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.