Greene v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 165 N.C. App. 1 - Stetser v. Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. (2004), Mann v. VIRGINIA DARE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, INC. (1973)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 State v. . Harris · Bridges v. Graham · Davenport v. . Patrick · Gay v. Thompson · Stegall v. Sledge
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... It is unusual for an automobile to leave the highway. When it does so without apparent cause and inflicts the injury or damage, an inference of the driver’s actionable negligence arises, which will take the case to the jury. The inference of negligence does not arise from the mere fact of injury; it arises from the manner in which it occurred.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This case, as presented to us, raises the sole question whether more than nominal damages are recoverable for the negligent killing of an infant incapable of earning anything, without direct evidence of pecuniary damage other than sex, age and condition of health of the deceased. In the very nature of things a child 5 months old has no present earning capacity, and has not reached a sufficient state of development to furnish any indication of his probable earning capacity in the future, other than the fact of being a healthy boy. This is all we know of him, or ever can know. (Emphasis added.) * * * * * * "Upon the greater and better weight of authority, as well as our own convictions of natural justice and of public policy, we are constrained to hold that the plaintiff can recover substantial damages in the case at bar."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Direct evidence of negligence is not required; it may be inferred from the attendant facts and circumstances.”
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.