Watrous v. Conor’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Nezworski v. Mazanec (1942), Paton v. Stealy (1935)
29 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 Cawood v. Earl Paige & Co. · Weil v. Longyear · Petersen v. Lundin · Michaels v. Smith · Benjamin v. McGraw
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Drivers of automobiles must at all times have their cars under such control that they will, when approaching a street intersection, be able to avoid endangering the safety of others, who may be lawfully upon the intersection or reasonably expected to be there, 'and if the defendant failed to bring his car under control upon approaching the intersection in question, he is guilty of negligence.’ ” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Noorthoek
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.