Staley v. Harkleroad’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2015
4 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 34 Tenn. App. 680 - Coleman v. Byrnes · Bradshaw v. Holt · Townsley v. Yellow Cab Co. · Nash ex rel. Butler v. Love
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Children, wherever they go, must be expected to act upon childish instincts and impulses; and others who are chargeable with a duty of care and caution towards them, must calculate upon this, and take precaution accordingly.' Townsley v. Yellow Cab Co. (1921) 145 Tenn. 91 , 237 S.W. 58 . See also Bradshaw v. Holt (1956) 200 Tenn. 249 , 292 S.W.2d 30 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Strother v. Lane · Kim v. Boucher“the defendant [the driver’s father] and his driver saw the plaintiff child seventy-five to one hundred yards away; the child was on the shoulder of the highway, looking the other direction; the child never looked toward the defen dant’s vehicle; the defendant’s driver appreciated the possibility of the child coming out into the highway; the defendant started to warn his driver to sound the horn; the driver slowed his vehicle but did not sound the horn. Here we have a situation wherein the defendant and his driver owed a duty of care to the minor. The law as above cited places the duty on the defendant and his driver to calculate upon childish instincts and impulses, and to take precautions accordingly.”
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.