Tyson v. . Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 1970 · most notably Cox v. Hennis Freight Lines (1952), Keener v. Beal (1957)
85 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) “No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing. (b) “Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful to operate a vehicle in excess of the following speeds: (1) Twenty miles per hour in any business district; (2) Thirty-five miles per hour in any residential district; (3) • • • ; (4) Fifty-five miles per hour in places other than those named in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this subsection for passenger cars . . .; (e) “The fact that the speed of a vehicle is lower than the foregoing limits shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease speed . . . when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or highway conditions, and speed shall be decreased as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or other conveyance on the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that the driver of the Tyson car was not bound to foresee or to anticipate that an unlighted truck would be left standing on the traveled portion of the highway ahead of him without flares or other signs of danger, but this did not relieve him of the necessity of keeping a proper lookout and proceeding as a reasonably prudent person under the circumstances. `While the plaintiff had the right to assume that other motorists would not obstruct the highway unlawfully, and would show the statutory lights if they stopped, he could not for that reason omit any of the care that the law demanded of him.' Steele v. Fuller, 104 Vt. 303 , 158 A. 666 .”
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.