Finnerty v. Darby’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Evans v. Otis Elevator Co. (1961), 441 Pa. Super. 1 - Sprague v. Walter (1995)
12 federal appellate · 44 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 Sherman v. Manufacturers Light & Heat Co. · Risbon v. Cottom · Rooney v. MacZko · Miller v. Exeter Borough · Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. v. Rusch
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold that the speed of that vehicle at the point at which Reece observed it is not too remote, but is admissible, ‘its weight and credibility being for the jury’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whether the evidence of speed is too remote in time and distance depends upon the facts in each case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jamison v. Kline · Jamison v. Kline““[T]he word ‘guess’ does not necessarily mean .mere conjecture, but may connote judgment. If a person is asked to estimate the number of people in a crowd, he may say T guess’ a certain number. By either term he is expressing an opinion based on observation.””
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.