3 Utah 2d 134 - Devine v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Nolde Bros., Inc. v. Wray (1980), Frey v. Woodard (1984)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Rush v. Lagomarsino · 1 Utah 2d 143 - Hillyard v. Utah By-Products Co. · Keeshin Motor Express Co. v. Glassman · Newton v. Oregon Short Line Railroad · Harris v. Kansas City Public Service 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All the signal amounted to, if given, was a manifestation on the part of Metcalf to Mrs. Cook that as far as he was concerned Mrs. Cook could proceed. At the most all he did was to signal to Mrs. Cook and indicate, as far as Metcalf was concerned, he yielded her the right-of-way.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e do not mean to say, nor to be understood as saying, that the decision reached in this case would be or should be applied to all cases involving signals or motions given by drivers of vehicles to others. It is possible that under certain conditions upon certain highways, such as hills or in the nighttime, a driver of a motor vehicle in signalling a car following such a vehicle to proceed, might, by such a signal or conduct on the part of the driver, be responsible for an accident in which the person relying upon such signal to proceed became involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We approve the rule laid down in the case of Harris v. Kansas City Public Service Co., 132 Kan. 715 , 297 P. 718, 720 , in which the Court states: * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstead v. Holbert
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.