Keller v. Shelley’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 5 Utah 2d 290 - Fretz v. Anderson · Dalley v. Mid-Western Dairy Products Co. · 25 Utah 2d 210 - Solt v. Godfrey · Nielsen v. Watanabe · 7 Utah 2d 7 - Hirschbach v. Dubuque Packing Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been the law of this State ever since Dalley v. Mid-Western Dairy Products Co.: That [sic] it is negligence as a matter of law for a person to drive an automobile upon a traveled public highway [sic] used by vehicles and pedestrians, at such a rate of speed that said automobile cannot be stopped within the distance at which the operator of said car is able to see objects upon the highway in front of him. [Footnote omitted.] [ 551 P.2d at 514 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collier v. Frerichs
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.