Elmer S. Nelson and Mabel R. Nelson v. Thomas Brames and Marilyn C. Brames’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 381 · 1958
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1972
13 federal appellate · 1 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 Satterlee v. Orange Glenn School District · Larkins v. Kohlmeyer · Globe Cereal Mills v. Scrivener · Wallis v. Nauman · Elmer S. Nelson and Mabel R. Nelson v. Thomas Brames and Marilyn C. Brames
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * that the skidding itself is not ordinarily evidence of negligence, where it skids across the center line of the road to the left side thereof and collides with another; but the burden is upon the driver on the wrong side of the road to excuse or justify the violation of the law of the road. * * ” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * there is no actionable negligence where, without fault of the driver, a vehicle skids across the center line of a highway and collides with an approaching vehicle * * * ”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.