Ruth v. Vroom’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1960 · most notably 96 Ind. App. 71 - Pennsylvania Railroad Co. v. Huss (1932), Morgan Hill Paving Co. v. Fonville (1930)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Spencer v. Taylor · Lett v. Summerfield & Hecht · Holsaple v. Menominee Sup'ts of Poor · Gleason v. Lowe · Diederichs v. Duke
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not enough that a driver be able to begin to stop within the range of his vision, or that he use diligence to stop after discerning an object. The rule makes no allowance for delay in action. He must, on peril of legal negligence, so drive that he can and will discover an object, perform the manual acts necessary to stop, and bring the car to a complete halt within such range. If blinded by the lights of another car so he cannot see the required distance ahead, he must, within such distance from the point of blinding, .bring the car to such control that he can stop immediately, and, if he cannot then see, shall stop.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dennis v. Stukey
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.