← 108 CALAPP2D 617 - Galbraith v. Thompson

Galbraith v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

1952

Citation profile

cited by 36 later decisions

states following

June 1976

most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 1976 · most notably 40 Cal. 2d 630 - Sills v. Los Angeles Transit Lines (1953), Daun v. Truax (1961)

36 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 Girdner v. Union Oil Co. · 38 Cal. 2d 102 - Selinsky v. Olsen · Dalley v. Williams · 38 Cal. 2d 107 - Peterson v. Burkhalter · Center v. Yellow Cab Co.

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

““Even if the child’s action was in violation of section 562, Vehicle Code (pedestrian to yield right of way to vehicles when crossing outside crosswalk) the question whether this should be considered negligence per se in this child was for the jury. The rule that a child is only held to care in accordance with its age and circumstances to be judged by the jury must prevail over the rule that violation of statute is negligence per se . . Hence, appellants assert that “the rule of negligence per se must yield to the greater policy of the law to protect children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Hartshorne v. Avery
“does not bar him from obtaining a judgment against the person who had the last clear chance to avoid the accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 40 Cal. 2d 630 - Sills v. Los Angeles Transit Lines

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.