Filkins v. Snavely’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Lukitsch v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1952), Leek v. Dillard (1957)
6 federal appellate · 49 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 Lewis Ex Rel. Piening v. Zagata · Payne v. Reed · Ruby v. Clark
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * However, the evidence in that case was much different. The vehicles involved were found on opposite sides of the highway and tracks madé by the transport appeared on the east shoulder of the highway which was the right side for this northbound vehicle. Furthermore, the contact in that case was with the side of the tractor at an angle and not with the front end thereof ; but most important, there were no such markings of the place of the collision as the gouge east of the center line in this case and the scratches leading directly from it to the broken front axle of the coupe. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a motorist meeting another automobile may turn to the left.”
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.