Droppelman v. Willingham’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Lee v. Tucker (1963), Halbert v. Lange (1950)
38 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · 116 Ohio St. 451 - Glowacki v. North Western Ohio Ry. & Power Co. · Jerke v. Delmont State Bank · Chambers v. Hawkins · Ralston v. Dossey
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where the facts of a case are undisputed, and but one legitimate inference can be drawn from them, the court, and not the jury, should determine their effect.’ Wood-Heck v. Roll, 183 Ky. 128 , 208 S.W. 768 ; Black Mountain Corporation v. Partin’s Adm’r., 243 Ky. 791 , 49 S.W.2d 1014 ; Hopper v. Barren Fork Coal Company, 263 Ky. 446 , 92 S.W.2d 776 ; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Yoe’s Ex’r., 287 Ky. 590 , 154 S.W. 2d 559 . Directed verdicts for plaintiffs in negligence cases are rare, but when the undisputed evidence points unerringly to negligence of the defendant as the cause of the accident, a directed verdict for the plaintiff is proper.””
2 later decisions 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.