Thurman v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2010
6 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 Gustafson v. Benda · Zalle v. Underwood · Wolfe v. Harms · Combellick v. Rooks · Bolhofner v. Jones
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o support a contributory negligence instruction on failure to keep a careful lookout, the evidence must support a finding that a driver had the means and ability to have avoided a collision. Means and ability include sufficient time and distance considering the movement and speed of the vehicles. There was no evidence to show that either party saw the other. There was no expert evidence on how far a car will travel at various speeds before stopping. Nor was there evidence to show the distance between the vehicles at material times.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to show contributory negligence in failure to keep a careful lookout, defendant must establish her position in the road, and must then demonstrate that plaintiff, exercising the highest degree of care, could have avoided the accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnone v. Hess
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.