Battle v. Chavis’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Watson v. White (1983), 44 N.C. App. 678 - Wray v. Hughes (1980)
30 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 Wade Ex Rel. Wade v. Jones Sausage Co. · Aydlett v. Keim · Barnes v. Horney · Shinault v. Creed
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contemplates a last 'clear' chance, not a last 'possible' chance to avoid the accident; it must have been such a chance as would have enabled a reasonably prudent man in like position to have acted effectively.”
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.