Horrocks v. Rounds’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado (1973), Fitzgerald v. Valdez (1967)
50 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 Stambaugh v. Hayes · Thompson v. Anderman · Reed v. Styron · Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres · Frei v. Brownlee
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The proper test is whether there is- any evidence from which the jury could possibly conclude that the accident occurred without-the negligence of anyone being the proximate cause. * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"`* * * followed by its application on assumed state of facts supported by substantial evidence from which, if believed, the jury would have been authorized to find that the * * * [collision] was caused by an unavoidable accident. * * *' Stambaugh v. Hayes, 44 N.M. 443, 447 , 103 P.2d 640, 643 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.