Shaw v. Sylvester’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Bullard (1984), 93 N.C. App. 269 - State v. Purdie (1989)
35 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 Parker v. Wilson · Tyndall Ex Rel. Tyndall v. Harvey C. Hines Co. · 24 Cal. App. 2d 718 - Moniz v. Bettencourt · Conway v. Hudspeth · Burwell v. . Sneed
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]ne who does not see a vehicle in motion is not permitted to give an opinion as to its speed. A witness who investigates but does not see a wreck may describe to the jury the signs, marks, and conditions he found at the scene, including damage to the vehicle involved. From these, however, he cannot give an opinion as to its speed. The jury is just as well qualified as the witness to determine what inferences the facts will permit or require.”
9 later decisions 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.