Spencer v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1963 · most notably 96 Ind. App. 71 - Pennsylvania Railroad Co. v. Huss (1932), Morehouse v. City of Everett (1926)
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Lauson v. Town of Fond du Lac · Serfas v. Lehigh & New England Railroad · West Construction Co. v. White · Fisher v. O'Brien · Harnau v. Haight
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the court was right in holding plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. It is well settled that it is negligence as a matter of law to drive an automobile along a public highway in the dark at such speed that it cannot be stopped within the distance that objects can be seen ahead of it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.