Allen v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably Timsah Ex Rel. Timsah v. General Motors Corp. (1979), Kirkendoll v. Neustrom (1967)
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Koehn v. Central National Insurance · City of Wyandotte v. Gibson · Paul v. Drown · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Hale · A. T. & S. F. Railroad v. Campbell
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.
““. . . There is nothing in the Uniform Operators’ and Chauffeur’s License Act (G. S. 1961 Supp., Ch. 8, Art. 2) that makes any exception to the standard of care and caution required as between minors and adults. The act was passed for the protection of the general public and users of the streets and highways and not for the protection of immature, inexperienced and negligent drivers.” (p. 317.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Esaw
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.