Hodge v. Goffstein’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1992
4 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 Brawley v. Esterly · Martin v. Sloan · Williams v. Cavender · Zeigenbein Ex Rel. Zeigenbein v. Thornsberry · Berry Ex Rel. Berry v. Harmon
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant’s theory ... ignores the location of the debris in the southbound lane and attaches greater significance to the witnesses’ testimony that there was some debris in the northbound lane. We think that the jury, as it obviously did, was permitted to attach major significance to the concentration of debris in the southbound lane and to accept the presence of some debris in the northbound lane as a natural consequence of the collision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his presence there is sufficient to present an issue of negligence, with his excuse or reason a matter for the jury's consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stucker v. Chitwood
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.