Cole v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1986
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Berry v. Brunt · McMinn v. Lilly · Phillips v. the Dow Chemical Co. · Layton v. COOK'S PHARMACY · MORRIS, BY NEXT FRIEND, ETC. v. Boleware
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only explanation that we can fathom for the accident is that [the defendant] was not maintaining a proper lookout for pedestrians and this negligence was the proximate cause of [the injury].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“noticed a man lying on or near the road and watched [the defendant's] van as it sped through a red light and passed from view.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.