Dorrell v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2016
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Parsons Construction Co. v. Missouri Public Service Co. · Cook v. Cox · Rakestraw v. Norris · Steele v. Goosen · Wills Ex Rel. Wills v. Townes Cadillac-Oldsmobile, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[w]hat constitutes negligence in failing to keep a lookout in a particular direction at a particular time or place, and whether a driver who has looked has seen all that he should, is usually a fact question.’ [citation omitted] ‘Certainly in the case at bar whether [defendant] failed to see what he should have seen was a question to be decided by the jury.... And it was also within the province of the jury to determine that he could have affirmatively and efficaciously acted to avoid the collision.... ’ [citation omitted]” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wellhausen v. Harris
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.