Elswick v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1988
7 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 Lennon v. Smith · Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad v. Freeman · Gary v. Artist
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another motor vehicle . . . more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of both vehicles and the traffic upon, and condition of, the highway at the time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clifton v. Gregory
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.