Bratton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2010
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Nizer v. Phelps · Grier v. Rosenberg · Northern Central Railway Co. v. State ex rel. Geis · Baltimore Transit Co. v. Sun Cab Co. · Gresham v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TJhere may be times when the evidence may fall between the two categories mentioned above, in which event the issue ... should be submitted to the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e would say, in sum, that the presumption of the exercise of due care on the part of the deceased plaintiff prevails, but that it may be undermined, or completely dissipated, by countervailing evidence. The court’s instruction based on the facts of each case, should reflect to what extent, if any, the countervailing evidence has affected the presumption.”
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.