Vance v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1965
21 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 City of Montgomery v. Ross · Mayor of Birmingham v. Tayloe · City Council v. Reese
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have a right to presume, and to act on the presumption, that the way is reasonably safe for ordinary travel”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Carter
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.