Marsh v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably Fulton v. Chouteau County Farmers' Co. (1934), Autio v. Miller (1932)
5 district · 28 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 Casey v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co. · Mullery v. Great Northern Ry. Co. · Daniels v. Granite Bi-Metallic Con. Mining Co. · Mehler v. Doyle · McIntyre v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even had the evidence been as counsel state it on this point, what could ordinarily be done would not be controlling in the second of time in which plaintiff had to make a choice; thus confronted by the peril raised by the sudden appearance of the truck, plaintiff was not required to act unerringly, but only to make such a choice as, under the circumstances, a reasonably prudent man would have made. (Citing cases.)””
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.