Bland v. Hershey’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.2d 991 · 1931
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1968 · most notably Bell Cab Co. v. Coppridge (1946), Capital Transit Co. v. Smallwood (1947)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Taxicab Co. v. Ottenritter · Ray v. Brannan · Primock v. Goldenberg · Mark v. . Fritsch · 227 Ill. App. 286 - Salmon v. Wilson
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.
““No driver, and especially no driver of an automobile, has leave to approach an intersection without using reasonable, watchfulness and caution to have his vehicle under control. When approaching a highway crossing, as elsewhere on the public ways, eternal vigilance is essential to the practical matter of driving automobiles.””
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.