Slingerland v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1947
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Railroad Company v. Stout · Kerr v. Hayes · Zuidema v. Bekkering · Halzle v. Hargreaves · Faustman v. Hewitt
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar we do not know what plaintiff’s decedent saw, but he could have seen the defendant approaching from his left and is chargeable with what he could have seen.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heckler v. Laing
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.