Shives v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably Pinnix v. Toomey (1955), Wyatt v. North Carolina Equipment Company (1960)
46 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 Murray v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Murray v. . R. R. · Brick Co. v. . Gentry · Patuxent Development Co. v. Bearden · Moss v. . Bowers
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ [N] egligence is not a fact in itself, but is the legal result of certain facts. Therefore, the facts which constitute the negligence charged and also the facts which establish such negligence as the proximate cause * * * of the injury must be alleged.””
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.