Holbert v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2009
16 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 Hogan v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Matthews v. Hicks, Adm'r. · Fenton v. Aleshire · Smith v. Tatum · Mawyer v. Thomas
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of negligence upon the part of all the parties charged therewith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is only where there is a reasonable theory of the evidence under which the parties involved may be held to have exercised due care, notwithstanding that the accident occurred, then an unavoidable accident instruction is proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the only evidence of the cause of an injury is that it resulted from human fault, an instruction on unavoidable accident is improper.”
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.