Lehman v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Bush v. New Jersey & New York Transit Co. (1959), Bentley v. Lawson (1966)
5 federal appellate · 46 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 Pryor's Administrator v. Otter · Dixon v. Stringer · Ramsey v. Sharpley · Tupman's Administrator v. Schmidt · Roselle v. Bingham
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon testifying that she did not see the child until he stepped into the street, Mrs. Lehman was asked if she was looking on the sidewalk and she replied, ‘I was looking straight ahead where I think you should look. * * * I was paying attention to traffic. I was looking straight ahead. ’ In Dixon v. Stringer, 277 Ky. 347 , 126 S. W. 2d 448, 451 , it was written that a driver of a car who merely looks down a street in utter disregard of pedestrians on the street, or crossing it, will not be exonerated from liability by the ‘sudden appearance’ of a pedestrian, as any appearance is sudden to such a motorist. “ * # * The propensity of young children to suddenly dart or run into the street or road from the curbing must be anticipated by motorists when such a child is seen, or by the exercise of ordinary care could have been seen, on the curbing or the edge of the sidewalk. Roselle v. Bingham, 242 Ky. 496 , 46 S. W. 2d 784, 786 . ””
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.