Snyder v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. Central States Oil Co. · Girratono v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · State Ex Rel. Spears v. McCullen · Roscoe v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Flournoy v. Gallagher
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, in any application of the doctrine, it remains essential to plaintiff's recovery for the evidence to show, and for plaintiff's verdict-directing instruction to hypothesize and require the finding of a state of facts demonstrating, that the front vehicle was in a place where it then had the right to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clevenger v. Walters
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.