Nelson v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2003
4 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 Massachusetts Bonding & Ins. v. Cudahy Packing Co. · Carpenter v. McKissick
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that he did not run over [plaintiff's] leg, that he saw the accident, but he did not know who did it; that he knew who was hit, but he did not know who hit him; that he was there and had seen the accident just after it happened; [and] that he did not know who ran over plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indicative of the state of mind of the defendant with reference to the accident”
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.