Ross v. Brannon’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Foshee · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. McWhorter · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Young · Anniston Electric & Gas Co. v. Rosen · Coleman v. Pepper
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of a traveler on a public street over which street cars are operated ‘to look for an approaching car, and, if the street is obstructed, to listen, and in some instances to stop.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.