Gabus v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Christian v. Gray (2003), Okland Oil Company v. Conoco Inc (1998)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Grismore v. Consolidated Products Co. · Ballou v. Henri Studios, Inc. · Abel v. Tisdale · Kleibrink v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. · Lollis v. Superior Sales 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“concerned facts that could be readily appreciated by any person who drives an automobile or crosses streets”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We find it highly probable that in this case the jury was unduly influenced by the opinion of one whose opinion was not needed by them to reach an intelligent conclusion as to the cause of the accident.”
3 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.