Nelson v. Nygren’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Babcock v. Jackson (1963), Miller v. Union Pacific R. (1933)
7 federal appellate · 57 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 Oppenheim v. Barkin · McAndrews v. Leonard · McDermott v. Sibert · Weidlich v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Merriken
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is not whether the guest should protest against fast driving, call attention to apprehended danger, or demand that the car be stopped so that he could get out. The legal question is whether, under the circumstances, he acted with the care that a reasonably prudent man would have used under the circumstances. Who is to answer that question, the court or the jury? We believe it is for the jury to determine.”
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.