Short v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Vaughn v. Jones (1953), Worthington v. McDonald (1955)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Copas · Louisville Ry. Co. v. Hibbitt · Straight Creek Fuel Co. v. Mullins · Pope-Cawood Lumber & Supply Co. v. Cleet · Lancaster Electric Light Co. v. Taylor
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is held generally that the vehicle first entering a narrow bridge or space has the right of way and is entitled to proceed, and it is tbe duty of tbe driver of tbe other vehicle to slacken speed, or, if necessary, to stop. <i*< * * And a motorist may assume in tbe absence of something to put him on notice to the contrary that another he is meeting will conform to the law, and may act upon that assumption in determining his own manner of using the road.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he ‘Law of the Road’ which is custom or practice which has become crystallized into an accepted system of rules regulating travel on the highways.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hainline v. Hukill
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.