Botz v. Krips’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2011
16 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 Nepstad v. Lambert · Schleuder v. Soltow · Dwyer v. Illinois Oil Co. · Gracz v. Anderson · Sathrum v. Lee
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In a few jurisdictions instructions on unavoidable accident are now disapproved. It has been said that such instruction merely restates a phase of the law of negligence, serves no useful purpose, in effect overemphasizes the defendant’s case, is apt to confuse and mislead, and should not be given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holten v. Parker
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.