Walker v. Milton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 105 Ill. App. 3d 965 - Larson v. Buschkamp (1982), 568 So. 2d 549 - Perkins v. SCAFFOLDING RENTAL & ERECTION SERVICE (1990)
31 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 Johnson v. Wilson · Burns v. Evans Cooperage Co. · Smith v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Ins. Co. · Deshotel v. Travelers Indemnity Company · Hollabaugh-Seale Funeral Home, Inc. v. Standard Acc. Ins.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We also find, as did the Court of Appeal, 'that, after the drivers were committed to turning and passing, neither had a last clear chance to avoid the collision. To the contrary, their maneuvers were almost simultaneous, placed both drivers in peril, and left neither in a superior position to prevent the accident. The doctrine of last-clear-chance does not apply under these circumstances.””
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.