State v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2016
14 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 Smith v. Goguen · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Delli Paoli v. United States · Silver v. Silver
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before this testimony is admissible, however, a foundation must be established that the witness knew how to calculate the speed on the basis of certain physical laws or formulas, such as those relating to the coefficient of friction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the failure to use that degree of care for the protection of another that the ordinarily reasonably careful and prudent man would use under like circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) the death of a person; (2) by the instrumentality of a motor vehicle; (3) which is operated in a negligent manner.”
1 later decision 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.