Lowe v. Futrell’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2007
22 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 Short v. Chapman Ex Rel. Rhoney · Cowan v. Murrows Transfer, Inc. · Grimm v. Watson · Badders v. Lassiter · Sheldon v. Childers
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law imposes upon [a motorist] the duty to use reasonable care to avoid injury to other persons upon the highway and, for that purpose, to blow his horn if, under like circumstances and conditions, a reasonably prudent driver would have done so”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] bicycle is a vehicle and its rider is a driver within the meaning of the Motor Vehicle Law.”
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.