Heath v. Klosterman’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Allison v. Snelling & Snelling, Inc. (1967), Susser v. Wiley (1944)
8 federal appellate · 32 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 Watkins v. Prudential Insurance · Stark v. Fullerton Trucking Co. · Dando v. Brobst · Watson v. Lit Brothers · Goff v. College Hill Borough
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a person steps into a position of danger in the street, and is immediately struck by a passing vehicle, which he could have seen had he looked, he is barred from recovery by his own negligence (citing cases).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Needleman v. Lloyd
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.