43 Ill. App. 2d 17 - Dawson v. Hoffmann’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Bixenman v. Hall (1968), Powell Ex Rel. Powell v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1966)
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.
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.
““. . . The law will not countenance the adoption of a double standard of care to be exercised by the drivers of motor vehicles. “Accordingly, it is our opinion that in the operation of an automobile a minor must exercise the same degree of care as an adult . . (p. 20.)”
4 later decisions 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.