233 So. 2d 764 - McHale v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2010
4 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 Avery v. Collins · MOAK v. Black · Peel v. Gulf Transport Co. · McMinn v. Lilly · In Re Will of Shute
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Court instructs the jury for the defendant Jack L. Daniel, that every operator of a motor vehicle has the right to assume and to act upon the assumption, that every other operator will exercise reasonable care and caution in traveling upon the highways of the State of Mississippi."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crossley v. James“"`* * * [S]econd, the defendants are in error under previous decisions of this Court in contending that the driver of a motor vehicle may assume that others on the highway will obey the laws of the road. * * *' ( 215 Miss. at 202 , 60 So.2d at 608 )." 233 So.2d at 769 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crossley v. James
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.