Bothern v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 1997
2 district · 20 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 Albers v. Ottenbacher · McCleod v. Tri-State Milling Co. · Hanisch v. Body · Parham v. Dell Rapids Township in Minnehaha County · Dwyer v. Christensen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Anything that would make compliance with the statute impossible; (2) Anything over which the driver has no control which places his car in a position violative of the statute; (3) An emergency not of the driver’s own making by reason of which he fails to 'observe the statute; and (4) An excuse specifically provided by statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Engel v. Stock
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.