Hailey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2008
15 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 Richter v. Seawell · Young v. Dyer · Sibley v. SLAYTON 193 Va. 470 · Mauser v. Hebb · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Lenz
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.
“It is incumbent upon the party complaining to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the accident occurred as the proximate result of an act for which the party charged can be held accountable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Ludington“A litigant is bound by the uncontradicted evidence of his opponent when not inherently improbable and counter to no reasonable inference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Com. v. Jackson
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.