Gregory v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1996
9 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 Hatcher v. Daniels · Junkins v. BROWN · Meeks v. McBeath · Klumok v. Young
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court instructs the Jury that a passenger in a vehicle as a permissive guest, assumes the risk of obvious dangers, and assumes all of the ordinary risks of an injury incident to travel in a motor vehicle controlled by a reasonably prudent driver, but does not assume the risk of the danger created by the negligent operation of a motor vehicle over which the passenger has no control. If you find from a preponderance of the evidence in this case that on or about November 25, 1986, at or about 6 o'clock a.m., C.W. Easterling was operating a vehicle in a northerly direction on and along Route 45 near Mattoon, Illinois, and at such place and time the Plaintiff, Flora Shields, was riding as a front seat passenger or guest in the vehicle, and if you further find upon a preponderance of the evidence, if any, that the weather conditions at the time created an obvious and/or ordinary risk of ice or frost forming on a bridge, but that such ice or frost, if any, was a reasonably ordinary or obvious risk of travel in a motor vehicle considering the location of the parties at the time and the weather conditions then and there existing, and if you further find from a preponderance of the evidence, if any, that the Defendant and driver, C.W. Easterling responded to the road conditions as a reasonably prudent driver would have responded or acted under like or similar circumstance, then your verdict must be for the Defendant, C.W. Easterling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the 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.