Young v. Grotsky’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1995
13 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 Kimbrough v. Chervitz · Zalle v. Underwood · Schaefer v. Accardi · Miller v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Beezley v. Spiva
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.
““The object and purpose of the strict requirement that persons operating motor vehicles keep a proper lookout upon public streets and highways is that they may acquire knowledge of the presence of other persons and objects on such streets and highways, and an awareness of dangerous situations and conditions. It is only because of that knowledge and awareness that the operators of motor vehicles may take appropriate precautionary measures to avoid injury to themselves and other persons within an existing area of peril.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`failed to keep a careful lookout' or `stepped into the path of defendant Grotsky's automobile when it was not reasonably safe to do so'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuzuf v. Gebhardt
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.