Singer v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Shewmaker v. Capital Transit Co. · Brown v. Clancy · Phillips v. D. C. Transit System, Inc. · Lancaster v. Canuel · Carter v. Singleton
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only in exceptional cases, where the facts are undisputed and where but one reasonable inference can be drawn, is the trial court justified in holding that negligence or contributory negligence has been established as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failed either to look at all or to look observantly and see what should have been plainly visible.”
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.