Baker v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1955
11 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 Baker v. Ashe · H. & T. C. R'y Co. v. Wilson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The undisputed proof shows that Collins drove his automobile upon the intersection of two roads, when, if he was not guilty of negligence, he must have seen the headlight, and known that the train was approaching the crossing, and that it was dangerous for him to attempt to cross in front of it. This being the case, the negligence of the deceased will bar any right of the plaintiffs to recover, unless the case comes within that class of cases where it is held that when the negligence of the defendant has caused the injured party to place himself in such a perilous situation as produces that degree of mental terror which incapacitates the injured party from acting as he otherwise would act, in which event the defense of contributory negligence is held not to apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Gentlemen of the jury, you are instructed that as a matter of law the deceased had an equal right to travel on the dirt road at the intersection with the railroad, as the railroad had to run its train on its track at that point.””
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.