Romero v. Turnell’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1982
14 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 Turrietta v. Wyche · Terry v. Bisswell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant’s truck driver was not bound to anticipate the decedent’s negligence in this situation until it reasonably should have been clear to him that the Chevrolet was not going to obey the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barbieri v. Jennings
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.