Richards v. Begenstos’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1973
3 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Speed limits, signals, and other traffic regulations, whether statutory or otherwise, call for the minimum of care and not the maximum. The circumstances and conditions may be such that the reasonable and ordinary care of the prudent person is not satisfied or fulfilled by mere compliance with the regulations but requires the exercise of more or other care. Whatever precautions ordinary and reasonable care and prudence require for the proper protection of others must be taken even though not exacted by statutory provisions. The care which the law requires must ordinarily be measured and proportioned to the dangers reasonably to be guarded 'against. A motorist should not operate his vehicle up to the speed limit of the statute, ordinance, or regulation if the circumstances are such that reasonable and ordinary care and prudence require a lesser speed.” Richards v. Begenstos, 237 Iowa 398, 408 , 21 N.W.2d 23 , and cases, cited.”
2 later decisions 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.