Evett v. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably Dairy Road Partners v. Island Insurance Co. (2000), La Plant v. EI Du Pont De Nemours and Company (1961)
29 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 Cluck v. Abe · Guthrie v. City of St. Charles · Collins v. Division of Welfare · Frandeka v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Higgins v. Terminal RR Ass'n of St. Louis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same principle carried to its logical conclusion would lead to the result that every action for negligent wrong could be defeated by a showing that there lurked inside the brain of the wrongdoer the secret intention to perpetrate the act. To avoid this the common law permitted the injured party to waive the intent, and rely upon the neglect. ... Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Court instructs the jury that it is the duty of the driver of every vehicle entering a through highway to exercise the highest degree of care to yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which are approaching so close on the through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard. “Therefore, you are instructed that if you find from the evidence that the driver of the automobile in which the plaintiff was a passenger drove onto the eastbound lane of Natural Bridge Road at McKibbon Road in an attempt to cross said highway at a time when the defendant’s automobile was approaching so close and at such a rate of speed as to constitute an immediate hazard of collision, if you so find, and “If you further find that the driver of the automobile in which plaintiff was a passenger in so operating his said automobile as aforesaid and under all the facts and circumstances in evidence failed to exercise the highest degree of care and was negligent, and that as a result of such negligence, if any, on the part of said operator of said automobile a collision occurred between the automobile in which the plaintiff was a passenger and the defendant’s automobile, and if you further find that the negligence of the driver of the automobile in which the plaintiff was a passenger was the sole cause of said collision resulting in injury, if any, to the plaintiff, and if you further find and believe from the evidence that the defendant was not guilty of any negligence as submitted to you in other in”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hickerson v. Portner
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.