Mercer v. Hilliard’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hayes v. City of Wilmington · Penn Dixie Lines, Inc. v. Grannick · Jenkins v. Fields · Brown v. E. H. Clement Co. · Williams Ex Rel. Williams v. Union County Hospital Ass'n
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts alleged by defendants do not constitute either an adjudication or an acknowledgement that negligence on the part of Mrs. Mercer proximately caused the collision between the Mercer and the Hilliard cars.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pack v. McCoy
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.