Kearney v. Ahmann’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2016
7 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 Blanton v. Curry · Iowa National Industrial Loan Co. v. Iowa State Department of Revenue · 128 W. Va. 241 - Elswick v. Charleston Transit Co. · Krepcik v. Interstate Transit Lines · Winter v. Harris
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a. When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same di rection under the rules governing such movement. b. When an obstruction exists making it necessary to drive to the left of the center of the roadway, provided, any person so doing shall yield the right of way to all vehicles traveling in the proper direction upon the unobstructed portion of the roadway within such distance as to constitute an immediate hazard. c. Upon a roadway divided into three marked lanes for traffic under the rules applicable thereon. d. Upon a roadway restricted to one-way traffic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Street” or “highway” means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the word `or' is used it is presumed to be disjunctive unless a contrary legislative intent appears.”
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.