Wojtowicz v. Belden’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably Kolatz v. Kelly (1955), Simon v. Carroll (1954)
30 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 Martin v. Herzog · Tedla v. Ellman · Hutcheson v. Misenheimer · Topinka v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all civil actions, a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, by either or any of the parties to such action or actions shall not be negligence per se but shall be prima facie evidence of negligence only.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“True, his conduct, although violation of law, was not negligence per se . But it was prima facie evidence of negligence. So the verdict for defendant was properly directed, in the absence of evidence reasonably tending to show that the conduct of decedent was not negligent .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demmer v. Grunke“* * * Important is the requirement that the pedestrian shall not only walk near the left side but also give way to oncoming traffic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brodd v. Priem
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.