Horton v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1967 · most notably Russell v. Bailey (1927), Thomas v. Meyer (1943)
1 district · 31 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Was or was not plaintiff Grover O. Benson, Sr., guilty of contributory negligence in failing to heed the warning, if any, given him by the operator of the defendant’s truck immediately preceding the collision, if you find that such warning was given by said operator and was either seen or heard by said Benson ? ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. Benson
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.