Dennis v. Stukey’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Layton v. Rocha (1962), Butane Corporation v. Kirby (1947)
45 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 Chicago Co v. Cole · Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. v. Conwell · Mathers v. Botsford · West Construction Co. v. White · Ruth v. Vroom
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule fixing the duty of the driver of an automobile who is blinded by the lights of an approaching automobile is well stated in Ruth v. Vroom, 245 Mich. 88 , 222 N. W. 155, 156 , 62 A. L. R. 1528, as follows: “ ‘It is not enough that a driver be able to begin to stop within the range of his vision, or that he use diligence to stop after discerning an object. The rule makes no allowance for delay in action. He must, on peril of legal negligence, so drive that he can and will discover an object, perform the manual acts necessary to stop, and bring the car to a complete halt within such range. . . .’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(Contributory negligence.) — The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact and shall, at all times, be left to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. English
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.