Lasko v. Meier’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1985
9 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 Dee v. City of Peru · Briske v. Village of Burnham · Thomas v. Buchanan · Barnes v. Danville Street Railway & Right Co. · Stack v. East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not consider it to be the law that in every case a guest or passenger is guilty of contributory negligence merely because he says or does nothing at the time of or immediately before an accident. We believe in many cases a jury could well believe that the highest degree of caution in a particular case may consist of inaction on the part of a guest or passenger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bliss v. Knapp
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.