Jorgenson v. Dronebarger’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Mueller v. Mueller (1974), Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Henry Carlson Co. (1969)
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 Dwyer v. Christensen · Peters v. Hoisington · Field v. GREGORY · Weidner v. Lineback · Ross v. Foss
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is always the chance of a trial court committing' error through overemphasis because instructions should not give undue emphasis to any phase of the case favorable to either side and even correct statements of law if unduly emphasized may constitute reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mueller v. Mueller“[w]e are unable to read into the words of the statute, i.e., "shall first see that such movement can be made in safety", a connotation that a lefthand turn is "prohibited unless it can be made in absolute safety and free from all danger".”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoffman v. Royer“shall first see that such movement can be made in safety”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoffman v. Royer
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.