Clark v. Scheld’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006 · most notably Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. (1992), Federal Land Bank of Wichita v. Board of County Commissioners (1961)
61 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 Millar v. Town of Wilson · Glenn Ex Rel. Glenn v. City of Raleigh · Smith v. Rawlins · Singletary v. Nixon · Parkway Bus Co. v. Coble Dairy Products 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[o]rdinarily the mere fact of a collision with a vehicle ahead furnishes some evidence that the following motorist was negligent as to speed, was following too closely, or failed to keep a proper lookout.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any activity of the municipality which is discretionary, political, legislative or public in nature and performed for the public good in behalf of the State, rather than for itself, comes within the class of governmental functions. When, however, the activity is commercial or chiefly for the private advantage of the compact community, it is private or proprietary." 23 S.E.2d 42, 44.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. State
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.