Tyler v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably McClellan v. Tottenhoff (1983), Noonan v. Texaco, Inc. (1986)
39 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 Mosley v. Arden Farms Co. · Luis v. Cavin · Blessing v. Pittman · Chandler v. Dugan · Dulaney v. Jensen
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Where a chain of events has been started, due to the negligence of the driver of an automobile, he may be held liable for all mishaps which are properly the proximate result of his improper conduct.' * * *”
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.