Boyd v. Close’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Mayer v. Sampson (1965), Mortensen v. Knight (1956)
12 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hutchins v. Haffner · Howard v. Zimmerman · Golden Eagle Dry Goods Co. v. Mockbee · Saint Mary's Academy of the Sisters of Loretta v. Newhagen · Livingston v. Barney
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If cars approach each other on a straight track, each on the right-hand side of the road, and neither turns, no question of precedence can arise. But he who turns, thus transferring the other from his left to his right, must yield. Otherwise, no rule governs, and `the race is to the swift and the battle to the strong.' * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“took a particular car for a particular trip and shared between them the duty of driver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“handicapped by the night, the lights, the location of the cars, and falling snow.”
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.