Sunset Motor Lines v. Blasingame’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1975
14 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 Schuhmacher Co. v. Holcomb · Great American Indemnity Co. v. Sams · International-Great Northern R. v. Acker · Robertson & Mueller v. Holden · St. Louis, B. & M. Ry. Co. v. Price
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Special Issue No. 1: Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that after being informed on January 19th, 1956, that said horses were at large, that defendant Massey failed to exercise that degree of care that a reasonably prudent person acting under the same or similar circumstances would have exercised in failing to find and recapture said horses between the time on or about 5 p. m. and the time of said collision ? “Special Issue No. 3: Do you find, from a preponderance of the evidence, that Defendant Massey failed to exercise that degree of care that a reasonably prudent person, acting under the same or similar circumstances, would have exercised in maintaining his fences and gates on January 19, 1958?””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is true that under Rule 272 as amended the objections to the charge may be dictated and written up later.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farley v. Farley
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.