Whitley v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Frazier v. Weatherholtz (1978), Meador v. Lawson (1974)
6 federal appellate · 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 Crist v. Coach Company · Webb v. Smith · Bedget v. Lewin
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the driver of a car has exercised the proper care under the given circumstances and whether the skidding of his car has resulted from his negligence are usually jury questions, [citations omitted].” Whitley v. Patterson, 204 Va. 36, 39 , 129 S.E.2d 19, 21 (1963) .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meador v. Lawson“[M]ere proof of the skidding of a motor vehicle on a slippery roadway does not establish negligence on the part of its operator, but is a circumstance to be considered along with all of the other evidence in determining whether negligence has been shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edlow v. Arnold
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.