Stackenwalt v. Washburn’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Dolson v. Anastasia (1969), Conklin v. Weisman (1996)
26 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 Bd. of Education of City of Asbury Park v. Hoek · Marchitto v. Central R. Co. of NJ · Vadurro v. Yellow Cab Co. of Camden · Ristan v. Frantzen · 14 N.J. Super. 254 - Murphy v. Terzako
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`There can be no doubt that the question of negligence in each case may properly be left to the jury with the general instruction ... of reasonable care under existing circumstances. Questions of proper speed and control of a vehicle are pre-eminently questions of fact for the jury to determine.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such an event (a rear-end collision) does not ordinarily occur without negligence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a special and greater degree of care commensurate with the increased danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.