Erdahl v. Hegg’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1988
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Kinnischtzke v. City of Glen Ullin · Knudsen v. Arendt · Fagerlund v. Jensen · King v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Rokusek v. Bertsch
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The violation of a statute or ordinance which declares that speed in excess of a certain limit is prima facie unlawful is not negligence as a matter of law, but only evidence of negligence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrett v. Nagel
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.