Nicholson v. Stroup’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 874 · 1957
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2005
10 federal appellate · 2 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 Knapp v. . Barrett · Burcham v. J. P. Stevens & Co. · Green v. Ruffin · Greear v. Noland Company · Penoso v. D. Pender Grocery Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nicholson’s conduct was not so plainly and decisively negligent as to justify its being so characterized as a matter of law. As Mr. Justice Holmes remarked, “A choice may be mistaken and yet prudent.” Kane v. Worcester Consolidated St. Ry., 1902, 182 Mass. 201 , 65 N.E. 54 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maucione v. Merritt““ * * * reasonable minds may differ as to the existence of primary negligence, contributory negligence, and last clear chance, and so the case was not an appropriate one for final disposition by direction of the Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grafton v. White
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.