Butler v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1992
22 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 Bundy v. . Powell · Henkelmann v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Thomas v. Motor Lines · Chambers Ex Rel. Chambers v. Allen · Hughes v. . Thayer
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease speed when approaching and crossing an intersection * * * or when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic * * * and speed shall be decreased as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle, or other conveyance on or entering the highway, and to avoid causing injury to any person or property either on or off the highway, in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bass v. Lee“No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bass v. Lee
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.