McCarthy v. Sheridan’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
December 1964
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Banks v. Morris Company · Spoeneman v. Uhri · Phillips v. Henson · State Ex Inf. Attorney-General v. School Dist. · Anderson v. Davis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, there was no evidence whatever that the stopping or slacking of the speed of defendant's car or swerving it to plaintiff's left would have endangered the safety of other persons, and in the absence of any such evidence we do not think it was error to omit that requirement from the instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eller v. Crowell
How this case has been treated — in progress
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