Badders v. Lassiter’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Cowan v. Murrows Transfer, Inc. (1964), Garmon v. Thomas (1955)
45 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 Wall v. . Bain · Matheny v. Central Motor Lines, Inc. · Cooley v. Baker · Hawes v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Reeves v. Staley
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manifestly, her decision to start across the intersection lacked reasonable assurance of safety and the operation of the automobile by her in traversing the intersection without keeping a reasonably careful lookout, establishes lack of ordinary care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swain v. Williamson
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.