James v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Hildreth v. Key (1960), Kickham v. Carter (1958)
35 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 Yeaman v. Storms · Wilson v. Toliver · Frandeka v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Kaley v. Huntley · Dempsey v. Horton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * where there is a duty to look the driver of a motor vehicle is as negligent in failing to see that which could have been seen in the exercise of due care as in failing to look at all (citations omitted), and the failure to see what is plainly visible constitutes negligence as a matter of law.” (Citations omitted.)”
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.