Stevens v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 1969 · most notably 2 Ill. 2d 511 - Duffy v. Cortesi (1954), Home Laundry Co. v. Cook (1939)
50 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 Nunnelley's Administrator v. Muth · Benge's Administrator v. Marcum · United Casket Co. v. Reeves
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““None of these witnesses,'at the time they saw appellant, were nearer than 400 yards to the point of collision, and none of them saw appellee after he passed them. The fact that appellee, a quarter of a mile away from the scene of the accident, may have been going at a high rate of speed, is no logical or relevant evidence that he was going at that speed at the point of the accident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.