Wood v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. (1978), Coffey v. Derby Steel Co. (1981)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 Maszczenski v. Myers · Ford v. Bradford · Proctor Electric Co. v. Zink · Sothoron v. West · Jones v. Collins
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ .. . [T]hat the showing of a brake failure makes a prima facie case of a violation of § 291 of Article 66V2 [1] and, if such violation is further shown to be the proximate cause of the accident, the then permissible inference of negligence must be controverted by a showing of adequate inspection and a sudden unexpected failure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.