Pea v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1982
12 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 Jackson v. Cook · 191 So. 2d 332 - Ates v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · 47 So. 2d 59 - Haywood v. Fidelity Mut. Ins. Co. of Indianapolis · 18 La. App. 464 - Union Hosiery Corp. v. J. Rabinowitz Co. · 147 So. 2d 226 - Schuster v. Audubon Insurance Company
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In considering whether there is negligence in this particular case, the law is to the effect that persons operating automobiles on public streets and highways in the vicinity of small children have a high duty of care. The motorist encountering children upon the roadside must anticipate that the very young are possessed of but limited judgment and that their actions are likely to be sudden, unpredictable and often foolish." (Record, p. 173)”
1 later decision 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.