Gamet v. Beazley’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1981
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Murphy v. Hawthorne · Caulder Ex Rel. Townsend v. Gresham · Goodman v. Wisby · Pierce v. Bean
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is not what counsel for the plaintiff might think about it, * * * but whether or not the trial judge might not reasonably conclude that under the circumstances * * * [plaintiff] should have been more careful, and that had he been so the collision would not have occurred. * * * ””
1 later decision 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.