Tyler v. Weed’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2016
7 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 McDonald v. City of Spring Valley · City of Shawnee v. Cheek · Chicago City Railway Co. v. Tuohy · The Steamboat Clipper v. Logan · Government Street R. R. v. Hanlon
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiffs sought to show the speed at which defendant was driving at the time of the accident, by Max Ballenger, a boy 14 years of age. This witness testified that he had observed the speedometers in automobiles in which he had ridden and that he could also give an opinion as to how fast defendant was going’, based upon his experience in observing automobiles driven on the streets. When he was asked to give his opinion as to the speed of defendant’s car at the time of the accident, the court sustained an objection made by defendant’s counsel on the ground that the witness had not been qualified to testify to such a fact. This was erroneous. The witness under these circumstances should have been permitted to give an opinion. He was sufficiently qualified for this purpose; and the weight and credibility of such testimony were for the jury. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Dr. Hans Gross, late professor of law of the Universities of Prague and Vienna, former judge of the law courts of Austria, and pre-eminent examining magistrate of Europe, referred to by Dean Wigmore as the scholar who has done more than any other man in modern times to encourage the application of science to judicial proof, says:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Here, according to the Roman Law, and (semble) according to our own, the infant is presumed juris et de jure incapable of unlawful intention or culpable inadvertence. His incapacity is inferred or presumed from the age wherein he is; and proof to the contrary of that pre-appointed inference is not admissible by the tribunals.”
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.