Henshaw v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably J. Paul Smith Co. v. Tipton (1964), Banks v. Jackson (1993)
25 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 Ward v. George · Edwards v. Jeffers · 24 Cal. App. 2d 718 - Moniz v. Bettencourt · Conway v. Hudspeth · Simms v. Tingle
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mr. Minton was permitted to testify, over the objection of the appellant, that he was called to the scene of the accident shortly after it occurred. He described in detail the position of the Plymouth automobile and the Chevrolet convertible; the point where the two girls were found; and the position of the appellant who was unconscious on the front seat of his car and was further permitted to testify that on the morning of the trial he had taken his car, a 1960 Chevrolet, from a dead stop and accelerated as fast as possible for two-tenths of a mile (this being the distance between the motel and the location of the Plymouth that was struck) and that he attained a speed of 75 miles per hour; that it was one of the requirements of his position to estimate the speed of vehicles involved in a collision and that viewing the distance the Chevrolet convertible was out of control and the severity of the impact, he thought the'Chevrolet convertible was traveling 80 miles per hour. ‘ ‘ The witness ’ test was made with a car other than the one involved in the accident and there is no showing that his test was made under the same conditions that prevailed at the time and at the place of the accident. The testimony of a policeman as an expert carries great weight but when it is predicated on conditions different than those under scrutiny it is inadmissible. ‘ ‘ The objection of the appellant was timely and should have been sustained. For error in overruling the objection this cause is re”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ransom v. Weisharr
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.