Anderson v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Bowen v. Gardner (1969), Dendy v. Watkins (1975)
59 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 130 W. Va. 540 - Skaff v. Dodd · Blake v. Mallard · Pruett v. Inman · Garmon v. Thomas · Bondurant v. Mastin
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at or near an intersection ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinary care surely requires a . . . man, under no disability, who observes that he is in the path of an automobile approaching . . . to do more for his own protection than merely walk at the same pace across the path of the automobile . . . ordinary care requires the man to jump or run from the path of danger, even though there may be some risk or loss of dignity in that process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.””
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.