Austin v. De George’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1962
18 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 Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. · Slayden v. Palmo · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Johnson · Manlove v. Lavelle · Wichita Falls. R. & Ft. W. Ry. Co. v. Emberlin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the plaintiff, David R. Smith, failed to have his said Ford automobile under proper control at the time of and immediately before the collision in question ? "Answer `Yes' or `No'. "By the term `proper control' as used in the foregoing issue, is meant such control as a person of ordinary prudence in the exercise of ordinary care would have kept under the same or similar circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Young
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.