242 So. 2d 708 - Swindell v. Hellkamp’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2016
18 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 2 Ill. 2d 511 - Duffy v. Cortesi · Winner v. Sharp · Clay v. State · Gilligan v. City of Butte · Beliak v. Plants
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.
“[i]n the absence of a legislative declaration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A jury might well conclude that the appellee driver had exercised that degree of care which the law exacts of him under these circumstances and that the sole proximate cause of the child’s injury was the conduct of the child in darting from his mother’s side and into the path of appellees’ approaching vehicle. Yet, this set of circumstances when viewed in their totality leave room for the trier of fact to conclude that the appellee driver failed to exercise the degree of care which the law required of him, resulting in the child’s injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“NEGLIGENCE OF A CHILD. Reasonable care on the part of a child is that degree of care which a reasonably careful child of the same age, mental capacity, intelligence, training and experience would use under like circumstances.”
1 later decision 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.