Lewis v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1984
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Maben v. Lee · Houston v. Pettigrew · Kelso v. Independent Tank Company · Jackson v. Brown · Benzel v. Pitchford
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is clear that the patrolman's statement that defendant failed to yield the right-of-way constituted an opinion or conclusion on his part as to the cause of the collision... . In our opinion, the cause of the collision in controversy was within the knowledge and understanding of an ordinary person. " [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabus v. Harvey
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.