Del Vecchio v. Lund’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2015
2 federal appellate · 20 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 State v. Violett · Orwick v. Belshan · Cordell v. Scott · Kuether v. Locke · Meyer Ex Rel. Meyer v. Johnson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no evidentiary foundation in the record to show the necessary element of `surprise' or that something other than the negligence of one of the drivers caused the mishap which would sustain the giving of this instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“You are further instructed that if Plaintiffs injuries came about as a result of an unavoidable accident, the Plaintiff is precluded from recovery. Such an accident comes about under circumstances in which there is no negligence which proximately caused the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mere fact that an accident happened and the parties sustained damages because of such accident, in and of itself, does not give rise to an inference that the accident was caused by anyone.”
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.