Hanser v. Youngs’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1956
15 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 Stroud v. Board of Water Commissioners · Commonwealth v. Henry · Jaquith v. Worden · Beaucage v. Mercer · Graham v. Hagmann
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ ‘ The mere fact that defendant in error was riding in the vehicle without such a light did not render him guilty of such contributory negligence as would bar his cause of action, unless the omission of such light in some way proximately contributed to the accident in which he was injured. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reetz v. Schemansky
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.