Wall v. . Bain’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. (1984), Bundy v. . Powell (1949)
5 federal appellate · 122 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.
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the duty of the driver of a motor vehicle not merely to look, but to keep a lookout in the direction of travel; and he is held to the duty of seeing what he ought to have seen.”
7 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.