Long v. Scheffer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2007
5 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 Nolty's Administrator v. Fultz · Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Byars · Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. v. Cook · Armstrong v. McGuire
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We know of no legal requirement that the driver of a vehicle must keep a lookout behind, but even if defendants’ driver was in this or some other respect negligent * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hainline v. Hukill
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.