Cowan v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad (1967), Nugent v. Quam (1967)
2 district · 29 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 · Federal Land Bank of Omaha v. Houck · Jerke v. Delmont State Bank · Husky Refining Co. v. Barnes · Kundert v. B. F. Goodrich 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“respondent's car must have been in close proximity when he started across the street — the evidence allows no other conclusion — and we see no reasonable excuse for his failure to see the car which struck him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nugent v. Quam“"Where he * * * sees it and misjudges its speed or distance from him, or for some other reason concludes that he can cross safely and avoid injury to himself, a jury question is usually presented."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nugent v. Quam“"Where oral testimony relied on to establish a plaintiff's case is opposed to unquestioned physical facts it is of no probative value and may be properly disregarded."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Schulte v. Schultz
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.