Self v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1979 · most notably 116 F. Supp. 491 - Carroll v. Lanza (1953), 113 F. Supp. 10 - Kisor v. Tulsa Rendering Co. (1953)
6 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 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Dawson · Morel v. Lee · Gates v. Plummer · Interurban Railway Co. v. Trainer · St. Louis, I. M. & S. Railway Co. v. Freeman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure to do something which a person of ordinary prudence would do under the circumstances, or the doing of something that a person of ordinary prudence would not do under the circumstances. Self v. Kirkpatrick, 194 Ark. 1014 , 110 S.W. 2d 13 (1937).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Persons operating an automobile and seeing children ahead of them must exercise such care as a man of ordinary prudence would exercise under the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norman v. Gray
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.