Ford v. Etheridge’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1991
24 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 Silva v. Waldie · Southern Union Gas Co. v. Briner Rust Proofing Co. · Williams v. Haas · 20 N.J. Super. 180 - Petrone v. Margolis · Perini v. Perini
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From all the facts in evidence we cannot say that the trial court erred in concluding that the appellants knew or should have known the dangers of their situation and had a duty to be on the lookout with the driver. If they had been alert the accident could have been prevented by timely warning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In those courts which have considered the question there can be no doubt, that in the absence of knowledge of the presence of danger or unsuitability of the driver, there is no duty for a passenger to keep a lookout for peril ahead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. Chavez
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.