Nepstad v. Randall’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2005
2 district · 17 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 Peters v. Hoisington · Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Colonial Insurance · Weidner v. Lineback · Scotvold v. Scotvold · Lambert v. Southern Counties Gas 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"to the effect that a highway safety statute was not applicable to a class of motor propelled vehicles so designed that they might never be used for transporting persons or property upon a public highway and that such a motor vehicle is not within the terms of the statute unless being operated upon a public highway at the time of an accident."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]very vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.