Salomon v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1964 · most notably Kirk v. Los Angeles Railway Corp. (1945), 30 Cal. 2d 453 - Freeman v. Churchill (1947)
31 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 Scott v. San Bernardino Valley Traction Co. · Sheldon v. James · Burgesser v. Bullock's · 128 Cal. App. 508 - Pinello v. Taylor · McQuigg v. Childs
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever there is room for an honest difference of opinion between men of average intelligence the question of whether the plaintiff was negligent in failing to look again in the direction from which the defendant’s car was approaching is a question of fact for the jury and the finding of the triers of fact is conclusive. (McQuigg v. Childs, 213 Cal. 661 [ 3 P.2d 309 ].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rangel v. Badolato
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.