Wiggins v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2006
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powers v. Temple · Elrod v. All · McVey v. Whittington · Yaun v. Baldridge · Entzminger v. Seigler
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a motorist is suddenly placed in an emergency situation, through no fault of his own, and is compelled to act instantly to avoid a collision, he is not negligent if he makes a choice that a person of ordinary judgment might make if placed in the same emergency situation.”
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.