Dixon v. Stringer’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 1967 · most notably Graham v. Rolandson (1967), Whittaker v. Thornberry (1948)
4 federal appellate · 72 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 Ashland Sanitary Milk Co. v. Messersmith's Administrator · Tupman's Administrator v. Schmidt · Nowak v. Joseph · Fork Ridge Bus Line v. Matthews · Louisville Railway Co. v. DeMarsh
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In some cases where the plaintiff is between seven and fourteen years of age it may be necessary to submit to the jury the question whether or not the plaintiff is capable of being guilty of contributory negligence, but in the case at bar plaintiff’s testimony establishes as a matter of law that he had sufficient intelligence and discretion to understand that there was danger of being struck by automobiles while crossing the street. It was not necessary, therefore, to submit this issue, and the trial court was justified in assuming as a matter of law that the plaintiff was capable in law of being guilty of contributory negligence. The trial court correctly defined ordinary care as applicable to plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Can it with any reason be said that there may be a ‘sudden appearance’ sufficient to exonerate the driver if he is not observing the duty of keeping a reasonable lookout! If the driver looks neither to the right nor the left, but merely looks down the road or street or at a traffic light in utter disregard of pedestrians on the side of the road or crossing the street, any appearance from the side of the road or street will, as to him, necessarily be a ‘sudden appearance’ but such ‘sudden appearance’ should not operate in law to exonerate him from liability."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a pedestrian intending to cross the street comes out from between cars parked on the left side and steps into the path of the moving car; -he naturally expects and looks out for cars approaching from his left, but just as naturally assumes that none will come from his right, as he knows that cars approaching from his right should be on the opposite side of the street.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. Music
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.