Bettner v. Boring’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2015
15 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 Jones v. Central States Oil Co. · Gossard v. Watson · Montgomery Elevator Co. v. Gordon · Millonig v. Bakken · Iacino v. Brown
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[sluch a mishap as a defendant's automobile merely skidding or sliding into collision with a plaintiff's vehicle on the highway (so the courts hold) may as readily be caused by cireumstances beyond defendant's control as by his negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kendrick v. Pippin“driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon, and the condition of, the highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[Alt is not recommended that this theory of recovery be employed except where the facts come strictly within the pattern of the typical rear-end collision situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kendrick v. Pippin
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.