McElroy v. Benefield’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2003
16 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 Morrison v. Lowe · B. & J. Byers Trucking, Inc. v. Robinson · Hamby v. Haskins · Transit Homes, Inc. v. Bellamy · Drope v. Owens
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who is suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with danger to herself or others not caused by her own negligence is not required to use the same judgment that is required of her in calmer and more deliberate moments. She is required to use only the care that a reasonably careful person would use in the same situation.”
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.