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← 230 S.W.2d 380 - Harbert v. Mathis

Harbert v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis

1950

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
8
states following
September 1980
most recently cited

10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1980

10 state decisions

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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 Davis v. Estes · Headstream v. Mangum

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The object of Section 57 was to eliminate the hazard of cars being operated on the left side of the roadways under certain conditions and the object of Section 57(a) 2 was to eliminate such hazard within 100 feet of intersections, and was for the benefit and protection of all persons and vehicles using the roadway at or near the intersection regardless of the direction they were traveling. Id. at 383.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The fact that appellant began his attempt to pass appellee as far as 115 feet from the intersection did not relieve him of the duty to observe the provisions of the statute and refrain from driving on the left-hand side of the road within 100 feet of the intersection. Id. at 382.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “No vehicle shall in overtaking and passing another vehicle or at any other time, be driven to the left side of the roadway * * *. When approaching within one hundred feet of or traversing any intersection * * *.”
    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.