Hayward v. Ginn’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1992
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Huey v. Stephens · St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Withers · Smith v. Territory of Oklahoma · Greenland v. Gilliam · Morris v. White
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unlike negligence, the issue of unavoidable accident depends on the introduction of evidence showing some factor over which the parties had no control, or could not, except by the exercise of exceptional foresight, have predicted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are of the opinion, from an examination of the entire record, that the jury must have been so impressed with the fact that the plaintiff was chargeable with contributory negligence that no recovery would have been allowed the plaintiff had the court not incorrectly instructed the jury on the issue of unavoidable accident. We cannot say from our examination and search of the record that the instruction given resulted in .a miscarriage of justice. Monris v. White, 177 Okl. 489 , 60 P.2d 1031 ; * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bottoms v. Botts““Only those questions argued in the briefs are treated in this opinion, the others noted on the petition in error being deemed waived. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. v. State, 203 Okl. 659 , 225 P.2d 363 . ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.