Grob v. Hahn’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2015
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 Albers v. Ottenbacher · Flanagan v. Slattery · Hullander v. McIntyre · Anderson v. Langenfeld
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““when the legislature by statute has fixed a standard of conduct ‘the omission of that duty is negligence in and of itself.’ In other, words, it is negligence as a matter of law.” Grob v.. Hahn, 80 S.D. 271, 274 , 122 N.W.2d 460, 461 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) Anything that would make compliance with the statute impossible; (2) Anything over which the driver has no control which places his car in a position violative of the statute; (3) An emergency not of the driver’s own making by reason of which he fails to 'observe the statute; and (4) An excuse specifically provided by statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Engel v. Stock
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.