Smith v. Aspaas’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1977
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 Fournier v. Zinn · White Dairy Co. v. Sims · Lee v. Chamberlin · Hall v. Root · Roellig v. Gear
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.
““* * * They cite subdivision (a) of § 18 of chapter 162, Laws of 1927, which is as follows: ‘When two vehicles approach or enter an intersection at approximately the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right of way to the vehicle on the right * * “Upon the record before us this statute is applicable in the case. Some contention is made by the defendant that it does not apply because he says that he entered the intersection first. It may be that he did, but certainly he did not enter it sufficiently in advance of plaintiffs’ car so that it may not be said that both the vehicles entered the intersection at approximately the same time.” (Italics supplied.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the vehicle on the right is traveling at a lawful speed, the test of the duty of the driver on the left to yield the right of way to the vehicle on the right, under this statute, is whether both vehicles are approaching or entering the intersection at approximately the same time. Which car actually entered the intersection first is without legal significance in determining the right of way, if it appears that the vehicles approached or entered the intersection at approximately the same time.” (Italics supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. Lake · Yost v. Yost
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.