Hartzheim v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1962
7 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 Osborne v. Montgomery · Collins v. City of Janesville · Patterson v. Edgerton Sand & Gravel Co. · Collins v. City of Janesville · Czarnetzky v. Booth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The backing of any vehicle entails more or less limitation of the view of the driver of the area to be traversed, and thus requires a vigilant lookout on the driver’s part to avoid causing injury to persons who are known to be or likely to be in the vicinity of the car that is being backed up. “ ‘Now the defendant, Lois Smith, was chargeable with knowledge of the traits of a child of Barbara Jane Hartz-heim’s age, which would require increased vigilance as to lookout on her part if she knew, or in the exercise of ordinary care ought to have known, that Barbara Jane Hartzheim either was or was likely to be to the rear of the car.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Culton v. Van Beek
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.