Witt v. Merricks’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2012
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Zayre of Virginia, Inc. v. Gowdy · Interstate Veneer Co. v. Edwards · Daniels v. Morris · Darden v. Murphy · Williams v. Commonwealth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the driver of an automobile relies upon sudden illness in an attempt to explain her conduct, the burden is upon her to prove not only the sudden illness but also that she had no reason to anticipate it and that it caused her to lose control of the automobile, and if she fails to prove all of these things then she cannot rely upon sudden illness as a defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myers v. Sutton
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.