Miller v. Graff’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Beahm v. Shortall (1977), Fowler v. Smith (1965)
8 district · 68 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 Henkelmann v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · People's Drug Stores, Inc. v. Windham · Williams v. Graff · Sun Cab Co. v. Faulkner · Mahan v. State Ex Rel. Carr
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that excessive speed of an automobile may not of itself be the proximate cause of an accident, but in some circumstances it may constitute negligence, if it directly contributes to the accident. Ottenheimer v. Molohan, 146 Md. 175, 184 , 126 A. 97 ; Sun Cab Co. v. Faulkner, 163 Md. 477 , 163 A. 194 ; United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Continental Baking Co., 172 Md. 24, 27 , 190 A. 768 ; Bozman v. State, for Use of Cronhardt, 177 Md. 151, 154 , 9 A. 2d 60 . Moreover, it is a criminal offense for any person to operate a motor vehicle over any public highway of the State recklessly or at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the width, traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the property and life or limb of any person. Code Supp. 1947, art. 66V2, § 156.” Id. at 618.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But by ‘expert’ we do not mean only a person who has specially trained himself to estimate the speed of automobiles, but rather any person who has become familiar with the operation and speed of automobiles by personal experience.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a child four years old cannot be guilty of contributory negligence under any circumstances”
1 later decision 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.