Terrill v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1938
7 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 Cross v. State · Lide v. State · Osborne v. Alabama Steel & Wire Co. · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Krichbaum · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Bush
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * If a person, in crossing a street or public highway, sees, in dangerous proximity, an approaching team, automobile, or other vehicle, and that its speed is such as to render the attempt to cross in front of it dangerous, and under such circumstances walks in front of it and thereby suffers injury, such person would be guilty of contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An event is liable if its occurrence is within the range of possibility.”
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.