Reed v. Willison’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1986
12 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 Turner v. Zip Motors, Inc. · Florke v. Peterson · Clayton v. McIlrath · Sanford v. Nesbit · Semler v. Oertwig
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the term ‘legal excuse’ is meant: “1. Anything that would make it impossible to comply with the statute or ordinance. “2. Anything over which the driver has no control which places his car in a position contrary to the provisions of the statute or ordinance. “3. Where the driver of the car is confronted by an emergency not of his own making, and by reason thereof he fails to obey the statute. “4. Where a statute specifically provides an excuse or exception.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 321.354 shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or improved or main traveled portion of a highway in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such disabled vehicle in such position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schermer v. Muller
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.