Thronton v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1953
13 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 Utilities Appliance Co. v. Toon's Administrator · Hunt v. Whitlock's Administrator · McGraw v. Ayers · Knapp v. Gibbs · Kennedy Transfer Co. v. Greenfield's Adm'x
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 rate of speed at which she was traveling, in the circumstances, was wholly immaterial, for, if she were moving at a rapid rate of speed, slowly, or had come to a full stop with the truck on her side of the road, as to her, the collision was inescapable. His truck having created an emergency, he cannot be permitted to cast the responsibility therefor upon Mrs. Phillips, nor is he in a position to charge her with contributory negligence. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rabold v. Gonyer
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.