Cierpisz v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably Miller v. Miller (1968), Waterson v. General Motors Corp. (1988)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Bentzler v. Braun · 140 Ind. App. 139 - Kavanagh v. Butorac · Garozynski v. Daniel · Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Co. v. Turner · Dashiell v. Moore
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.
““We agree * * * with the courts that have held it is not negligence per se to fail to use a seat belt where the statute requires only its installation in the vehicle and we so hold. We hold, also, that the failure to use the seat belt, standing alone, is not evidence sufficient to support a finding of contributory negligence. Some future case in which the availability of the belt will be known to the plaintiff and in which there vjill be evidence indicating the failure to use it tvas a substantial factor in producing or aggravating the plaintiff’s injuries may require us to consider holding that the issue, with proper instructions, ought to be submitted to a jury. This case does not require it and we do not so hold.” Id. at 227 . (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Frush
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.