Teche Lines, Inc. v. Danforth’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State (1976), Planters Wholesale Grocery v. Kincade (1951)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Cox v. State of New Hampshire · Kidd v. Pearson · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. City of Goldsboro · New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co. · Escanaba Lake Michigan Transp Co v. City of Chicago
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our ruling is that when twenty feet of clearance is impossible, the vehicle shall turn as far to the right as practical including sound and safe shoulders, but must not stop upon any part of the traveled highway unless and until at least 200' feet clear view is available in each direction from the point where the stop is made, save when the vehicle is disabled, as provided for under subsection (b); and save, further, when on account of obstructions or equivalent conditions ahead, it is impossible to proceed so as to leave the 200 feet of clear view; and that all this is for the determination of the jury, instead of being taken away from them, as was done here.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““and in every event a clear and unobstructed width of at least twenty (20) feet of such part of the highway on the left side or opposite said bus shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles, and a clear view of such stopped bus be available from a distance of two hundred (200) feet in each direction upon such highway. ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule is without exception that when the Court is confronted with a statute a literal construction of which would render it unconstitutional, the Court must adopt such a construction, when reasonably possible, as will save the statute, and at the same time save every savable provision or term in it.”
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.