Stephenson's Administratrix v. Sharp's Executors’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1964 · most notably Owen Motor Freight Lines v. Russell's Adm'r (1935), Chambers v. Hawkins (1930)
39 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 Ray v. Ray · Barksdale's Administrator v. Southern Railway Co. · Sharp v. Sproat · Milner's Administrator v. Evansville Railways Co. · Tennessee Central Railroad v. Vanhoy
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He (the guest) must use ordinary care for his own safety, and when his means of observing obvious dangers are the same as or better than those possessed by the driver and he fails to observe them, or, observing them, fails to warn the driver, he is guilty of contributory negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under such circumstances it should not be left to-the jury to determine whether other and additional means of warning should be employed.””
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.