Branson v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2010
8 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 Johnson v. Harrison · Hoffman v. Stuart · Shelton v. Detamore
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * the fact that one vehicle has the right of way over another at a highway intersection does not relieve the driver of the privileged vehicle of the duty of keeping a reasonable lookout and otherwise exercising ordinary care to avoid a collision. * * ” See also Farmer v. Marine Center, Inc., 206 Va. 737, 742 , 146 S.E. 2d 265, 270 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Eccles“A.....I saw her moving out into the street when I saw her. A.....I really wasn’t paying too much attention to her, because I never dreamed she wouldn’t stop. I saw she was moving. I never dreamed — I knew I had the right of way and I didn’t dream she was going to come in and hit me.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Yates
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.