Graham v. Hagmann’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Greenwald v. B. O. R. R. Co. (1928), Grubb v. Illinois Terminal Co. (1937)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 Hennessey v. Taylor · Christy v. Elliott · Baker v. . Close · Burvant v. Wolfe · Fletcher v. Dixon
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The degree of care and caution to be used in each case depends upon the character of the vehicle used and the locality and surroundings in which it is being used. The more dangerous the character of the vehicle and the greater its liability to do injury to others, the higher is the degree of care and caution to be exercised by the person charged with the duty of its operation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grant v. Richardson““The mere fact that defendant in error was riding in the vehicle without such a light did not render bim guilty of such contributory negligence as would bar his cause of action, unless the omission of such light in some way proximately contributed to the accident in which he was injured.” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanser v. Youngs
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.