Welch v. McNeely’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Graham Ex Rel. Bodine v. Conner (1967), Housman v. Fiddyment (1967)
51 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 Banks v. Morris Company · Smithers v. Barker · Yeaman v. Storms · Stith v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Buehler v. Festus Mercantile Co.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence that notwithstanding the fact that plaintiff had gotten himself in a position of imminent peril, that if you find and believe from the evidence that in getting into such a position of'imminent peril that he ran across in front of the standing bus, into the path of the truck driven by the defendant, when the truck was so close that the defendant could not by the exercise of the highest degree of care'avoid striking the plaintiff, either by swerving, stopping, signalling or turning aside, then you are instructed that you cannot find for the plaintiff under Instruction No. 3.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the long-established and salutary principle that this [C]ourt will review a case only upon the same theory upon which it was submitted in the trial court”
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.