Sparkman v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 1975
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Impson v. Structural Metals, Inc. · Davis v. State · Parson v. Texas City · Martinez v. Hernandez
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A, driving an automobile, approaches a strange town in which the signals in use are different from those to which he is accustomed. It is negligent to go on without ascertaining the meaning of these strange signals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sparkman v. Maxwell
How this case has been treated — in progress
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