Manley v. Hammons’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1965
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The simple fact that the driver of one of two meeting automobiles, whose combined speed approximate 60 miles per hour, has not cleared the road within a space of 300 feet, in our opinion, should be, in itself, sufficient indication to the driver of the other vehicle that there is immediate danger of a collision. Such a situation imposes upon the blameless driver the necessity of taking every possible precaution which would serve to avoid and prevent such a collision. Drivers of motor vehicles are operators of potentially dangerous instrumentalities and cannot be permitted to substitute assumption for reason, caution and prudent action.”
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.