Hedges v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably Interstate Motor Lines, Inc. v. Great Western Ry. Co. (1947), Wicker v. North States Construction Co. Inc. (1931)
10 federal appellate · 2 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 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad v. Ryan · City & County of Denver v. Bowen · 178 Ill. App. 66 - People v. Lloyd · Denver Omnibus & Cab Co. v. Mills
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is contended that some duty devolved upon plaintiff (a passenger on the rear seat of defendant's automobile) to warn and guide defendant as to his route of travel, his speed, etc., and that neglect to discharge that duty constituted such contributory negligence as to defeat recovery. If such be the law, the instructions given were ample. But a duty to give such advice implies a duty to heed it, and the rear seat driver is responsible for enough accidents as the score stands without the aid of judicial precedent. The place for a passenger who knows better than the driver of a car when, where, and how it should be operated is at the wheel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ling v. Pease
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.