Hedrick v. Akers’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2001
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Harrison v. North Carolina Railroad · Furst v. . Merritt · Hicks v. . Manufacturing Co. · Gettys v. Town of Marion · Bradham v. McLEAN TRUCKING COMPANY
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It was dirty around there and I didn't know whether there was dirt on the sidewalk, or whether it was concrete, or dirt washed up, or what. * * * I thought the pipe stuck up above the concrete some places as much as five inches and gradually tapered off to less than five inches * * * the pipe which was sticking up above the concrete was about eight or 10 feet in length.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Price“The mixture of dirt and rain on the sidewalk created an extra hazard which called for a corresponding increase in vigilance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Price“`in its present state, the law is not able to protect [those] who have eyes and will not see'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tipton v. Barge
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.