11 Cal. App. 2d 44 - Scalf v. Eicher’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably 35 Cal. 2d 474 - Ornales v. Wigger (1950), 120 Cal. App. 2d 815 - Bickham v. Southern California Edison Co. (1953)
34 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 Smellie v. Southern Pacific Co. · Cahill v. E. B. & A. L. Stone Co. · Flores v. Fitzgerald · 120 Cal. App. 561 - Silvey v. Harm · Mora v. Favilla
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 34 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 proximately contributes to the injuries is presumptively an act of negligence unless the act or omission was justifiable or excusable under the circumstances. . . . Whether or not a violation of a statute or ordinance proximately contributed to an accident and whether the violation was excusable or justifiable are questions of fact except in a case where . . the court is impelled to say that from the facts reasonable men can draw but one inference and that an inference pointing unerringly to the negligence of the plaintiff contributing to his injury’.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.