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← 261 N.C. 579 - Sugg v. Baker

Sugg v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
May 1979
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bundy v. . Powell · Wall v. . Bain · Bridges v. Graham · Tarrant Ex Rel. Tarrant v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. · Walston v. Greene

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The requirements of prudent operation are not necessarily satisfied when the defendant ‘looks’ either preceding or during the operation of his car. It is the duty of the driver of a motor vehicle not merely to look, but to keep an outlook in the direction of travel; and he is held to the duty of seeing what he ought to have seen.””
    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.