Burkey v. Royle’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 1999
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Union Pacific Railroad v. Kaiser Agricultural Chemical Co. · Prime Inc. v. Younglove Construction Co. · Newkirk v. Kovanda · Vrba v. Kelly · Kasper v. Carlson
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.
“if the presence of ice or snow upon the road surface is known or should have reasonably been anticipated, the snow and ice are considered conditions rather than intervening causes and thus do not exonerate a motorist from the application of the range of vision rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“notwithstanding that a motorist's ability to maneuver the vehicle is impaired by the presence of ice or snow upon the road surface.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Roth
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.