Buchanan v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1971
8 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 Seinsheimer v. Burkhart · Pure Oil Co. v. Crabb · Jimmie Guest Motor Co. v. Olcott · Tarry Warehouse & Storage Co. v. Price · Roddy v. Herren
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Furthermore, in the exercise of ordinary care to keep a proper lookout for his own safety before entering or proceeding through the intersection, plaintiff was not necessarily required to foresee that Buchanan or any other person would approach the intersection at an excessive and dangerous rate of speed or that such person would not slacken his speed before reaching or entering the intersection. Jimmie Guest Motor Co. v. Olcott, Tex.Civ.App., 26 S.W.2d 373 (er.dis.); Schuhmacher Co. v. Bahn, Tex.Civ.App., 78 S.W.2d 205 (er.dis.); Roddy v. Herren, Tex.Civ.App., 125 S.W.2d 1057 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Day v. McFarland““The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has entered the inter-: section from a different highway.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.