Millsaps v. Brogdon’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1973
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 Hot Springs Street Railroad v. Hildreth
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The beggar on his crutches has the same right to the use of the streets of the city as has the rich man in his automobile. Each is bound to the exercise of ordinary care for his own safety and the prevention of injury to others in the use thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Cabe
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.