Hillier v. Lamborn’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2006
11 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 Fields v. Volkswagen of America, Inc. · Britton v. Doehring · Hampton v. State Highway Commission · Fischer v. Moore · Lipscomb v. Diamiani
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who is suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with a peril arising from either the actual presence or the appearance of imminent danger to himself or to others is not expected nor required to use the same judgment and prudence as required of him in calmer and more deliberate moments. His duty is to exercise only the care which an ordinary person would exercise in the same situation. If at that moment he does what appears to him to be the best thing to do, and if his choice and manner of action are the same as might have been followed by any ordinary prudent person under the same conditions, he does all the law requires of him, although in light of after events, it should appear that a different course would have been better or safer. However, the presence of such an emergency or sudden peril does not constitute such an excuse or justification for negligence if the emergency or sudden peril was caused by that driver's own fault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the dictionary was `extraneous information'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.