Wainwright v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1985
12 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 Hughes v. . Thayer · Sparks v. . Willis · Walker Ex Rel. Walker v. Byrd
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty the law imposes upon a motorist who sees, or by the exercise of reasonable care should see, children on or near the highway has been frequently declared by this Court. He must recognize that children have less discretion than adults and may run out into the street in front of his approaching automobile unmindful of the danger. Therefore, proper care requires a motorist to maintain a vigilant lookout, to give a timely warning of his approach, and to drive at such speed and in such a manner that he can control his vehicle if a child in obedience to a childish impulse, attempts to cross the street in front of his approaching automobile. Spa rks v. Willis, 228 N.C. 25 , 44 S.E. 2d 343 ; Hughes v. Thayer, 229 N.C. 773 , 51 S.E. 2d 488 ; Walker v. Byrd, 258 N.C. 62 , 127 S.E. 2d 781 .” Id. at 381.”
3 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.