Sherman v. Lawless’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.2d 899 · 1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2018
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Ford Motor Co. v. Mondragon · Bitler v. Terri Lee, Inc. · Johnsen v. Taylor · Nisi v. Checker Cab Co. · Welstead v. Jim Ryan Construction Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here the evidence conclusively establishes that decedent, as defendant approached, was lying on the traveled path of traffic on a primary highway, on a dark night, in dark clothing. Decedent’s action in assuming such a hazardous position, if done voluntarily, would manifest a very high disregard for his own safety, and such conduct, in the absence of any reasonable explanation or excuse therefor, would in our view establish contributory negligence more than slight as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nickell v. Russell“the judgment must go against the party upon whom rests the burden of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.