Earle v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Vernon v. Crist (1977), 139 N.C. App. 500 - Nealy v. Green (2000)
24 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 Exum v. Boyles · Williams v. Henderson · Creech v. Sun Life Assurance · Ingram v. . Smoky Mountain Stages, Inc. · Redmon v. . R. R.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant was driving approximately twenty-five to thirty miles per hour. It was nighttime, but the street was well lighted. The defendant saw the plaintiff only a split second before impact and did not sound the horn. The defendant’s tires left skid marks measuring twenty-six feet. The Court concluded that this evidence was sufficient to warrant the submission of the issue of last clear chance to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ll the evidence indicate[d] the defendant failed to sound the horn”
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.