Shaffer v. Torrens’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably 383 Pa. Super. 633 - Butler v. Flo-Ron Vending Co. (1989), 256 Pa. Super. 259 - Commonwealth v. Reynolds (1978)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Mulheirn v. Brown · Scholl v. Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. · Ealy v. New York Central Railroad · Zandt v. Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad · Perry v. Pittsburgh Railways 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.
“There is no rule of law, whereof we are aware, that excludes opinion evidence as to speed if the witness presents the requisite qualifications, viz., an observation of the vehicular movement in question and a recognition of impressions of like vehicles at relative speeds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heacox v. Polce
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.