Seitz v. Heep’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Blount Brothers Construction Company v. Rose (1962), Mobile City Lines, Inc. v. Alexander (1947)
26 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 Boyette v. Bradley · Karpeles v. City Ice Delivery Co. · Grauer v. Alabama Great Southern R. Co. · Williams v. Wicker · McCaleb v. Reed
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““15. The Court charges the jury that if you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence that the sole proximate cause of the collision between the automobile in which Ethel Kines was riding, and the train on the occasion in question was the failure of the driver of such automobile to stop before reaching the track at such crossing, then your verdict should be for the defendants in the suit of Ethel Kines.”-”
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.