Ratcliffe v. Speith’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1990
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Hennessey v. Taylor · Burvant v. Wolfe · Collins v. South Boston Railroad · Haake ex rel. Haake v. Davis · Lynch v. Shearer
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, also, that motorists may ordinarily assume that pedestrians or others using the street will exercise ordinary care. They have no right, however, to assume that the way will always be clear and travelers will always be alert to avoid collision. On the other hand, it is their duty to be vigilant and careful to avoid injuring those who are sharing the use of the streets with them.” (p. 825.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Thompson
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.