Wolfe v. Ives’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1960
14 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 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Johnson · Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. Huntley · Miles v. Strong · St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Brown · Soper v. Tyler
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An adult person of reasonable intelligence and ordinary experience in life, who just before an accident observed the passing automobile, the rapid speed of which is claimed to have caused the accident, is presumably capable, without proof of further qualification, to express an opinion as to how fast such automobile was going.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Weaver
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.