Petersen v. Klos’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 199 · 1970
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2009
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Bentzler v. Braun · Miller v. Miller · Saxton v. Rose · Robbins v. Milner Enterprises, Inc. · Terry v. Smylie
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ * * * However, the social utility of using a seat belt is not clear. In spite of the overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the beneficial results of seat belt use, acceptance of the safety belt by the public has not been achieved. The social utility of wearing a seat belt must be established in the mind of the public before failure to use a seat belt can be held to be negligence. Otherwise the court would be imposing a standard of conduct rather than applying a standard accepted by society.’ (Emphasis supplied.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to enter judgment for the plaintiff [Petersen] in the amount of $40,360.00 as previously determined by that [District] court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petersen v. Klos
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.