Poulos v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
July 2006
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Hill · Jaeger v. Estep · Laurens Telephone Co. v. Enterprise Bank · Moseley v. Carolina, C. & O. Ry. · Tucker v. Southern Railway
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An emergency has been defined as a sudden or unexpected event or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action.”
1 later decision 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.