Casey v. Siciliano’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably McDonald v. Ferrebee (1951), Giannone v. Reale (1938)
59 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 Medvidovich v. Schultz · Gates v. Keichline · Montgomery v. Philadelphia · Lieberman v. Pittsburgh Railways Co. · Price v. Hamscher
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the driver of an automobile claims that he has been subjected to a sudden emergency in driving on the highways, to enable him to claim the benefit of this rule, it must appear that he was not driving in a reckless or careless manner, but with due regard to the condition of the highway and the traffic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Dugan
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.