Hendrickson v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1964
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Gilbert v. New Mexico Const. Co. · Esponette v. Wiseman · Romney v. Lynch
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.
““ * * ., * the only question which need be .considered is whether or not appellant, owed a duty to the traveling-public to erect and maintain caution signs on; the. old highway at the point where the ■ accident occurred. Or, in other words, whether his neglect to put up and maintain such signs subjects him to .liability -for the injuries suffered by appellee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * that a contractor working upon a highway, who has a right to and does divert traffic onto another state highway being maintained by the state highway commission, is not liable for injuries received in accidents due to defects in said state highway.””
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.