Mathis v. Marlow’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2019
17 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 Wade Ex Rel. Wade v. Jones Sausage Co. · Creech v. Sun Life Assurance · Ingram v. . Smoky Mountain Stages, Inc. · Irby v. Southern Railway Company · Aydlett v. Keim
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he doctrine of last clear chance is invoked “only in the event it is made to appear that there was an appreciable interval of time between the plaintiffs negligence and his injury during which the defendant, by exercise of ordinary care, could or should have avoided the effect of plaintiffs prior negligence.” Where there is no evidence that a person exercising a proper lookout would have been able, in the exercise of reasonable care, to avoid the collision, the doctrine of last clear chance does not apply.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“such a chance as would have enabled a reasonably prudent man in like position to have acted effectively.”
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.