62 Tenn. App. 591 - Garrett v. McConkey’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1994
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Lancaster v. Montesi · 38 Tenn. App. 55 - Carney v. Goodman · Deming & Co. v. Merchants' Cotton-press, etc., Co. · Tennessee Trailways, Inc. v. Ervin · Southeastern Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Groves
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record in the instant case leaves no doubt but that plaintiff’s intestate rode his motorcycle up to the intersection, either hesitated or stopped, and, with the bus in unobstructed view, suddenly and abruptly crossed the highway into the northbound lane to the point of collision. It becomes too clear for argument that the asserted differential in the bus’ speed simply could not be a realistic proximate cause of the accident. In the fact of un-controverted testimony showing that plaintiff’s intestate suddenly rode into the path of the oncoming bus, whether defendant’s bus was traveling at 73.5 or at 63 miles per hour becomes insignificant. It is plain that the immediate cause of the collision was not the speed of the bus; but apparently the sudden and heedless entry of plaintiff’s intestate onto the north side of the highway.””
2 later decisions 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.