Tate v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1963
15 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 Burhans v. Burhans · Olson v. Hermansen · Hopper v. Barren Fork Coal Co. · Consolidated Coach Corp. v. Hopkins' Administrator
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one can be held to answer for a happening that results from- his doing what the law makes it his duty to do. Courts have directed verdicts for defendants in absence of other negligence in cases where accidents resulted from efforts to avoid striking dogs that suddenly appeared in the pathway of machines. Burhans v. Burhans, 159 Md. 370 , 150 A. 795 ; Olson v. Hermansen, 196 Wis. 614 , 220 N. W. 203 , 61 A. L. R. 1243. If trying to save a dog-will excuse, then certainly one is to be excused for what happens when he is trying to save a child. So we must find other negligence if this verdict is to be' sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.