Sills v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably 80 Cal. App. 2d 166 - Perry v. City of San Diego (1947), Hession v. City & County of San Francisco (1954)
25 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 Benson v. Baltimore Traction Co. · 128 Cal. App. 94 - Buckingham v. San Joaquin Cotton Oil Co. · 90 Cal. App. 151 - Madigan v. O. A. Hale & Co. · 109 Cal. App. 703 - Gootar v. Levin · 7 Cal. App. 267 - Grant v. Sunset Telephone & Telegraph 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the United States it has always been customary for drivers to operate their vehicles on the right hand side of a roadway. Numerous statutes have enacted that universal custom into law. The custom itself has established a standard of due care to which all drivers should be required to conform. This should be true whether they are driving on a public street or highway and are required to drive on its right hand side by law or are on a private road and are required to drive on its right hand side by universal custom.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Street’ or ‘Highway.’ ‘Street’ or ‘highway’ is a way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.