Conrad v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Wilson v. Whittaker (1967), Cassady v. Martin (1980)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Steele v. Crocker · OA PATTERSON v. Rosetta Anderson · Anderson v. Payne · Rhoades v. Meadows · Umberger v. Koop
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A pedestrian on entering a highway is not required to await the passage of all automobiles that may be in sight. His duty is to await the passage of those which are so near or approaching at such rate of speed that a person exercising reasonable care for his own safety would not attempt to cross. If he undertakes to cross without looking, or, if he looks and fails to see or to heed traffic that is in plain view and dangerously close, he is guilty of negligence as a matter of law. Rhoads V. Meadows, 189 Va. 558 , 54 S.E.2d 123 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quate v. Chappell
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.