Todd v. Presley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1991
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Yarrington v. Lininger · Lotta v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Hughes v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Schmittzehe v. City of Cape Girardeau · Wabash Railroad Company v. Dannen Mills, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, when the plaintiff is oblivious, it has been said that the zone of immediate danger of being injured is widened to that point where it was or should have been reasonably apparent to the defendant in the exercise of the required degree of care that the plaintiff was oblivious of the approach of defendant’s moving vehicle and was intent on continuing across its path. [Cites omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`clear and simple situation of one vehicle being operated for a considerable distance behind another and overtaking it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bettner v. Boring
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.