Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably 2 Cal. App. 4th 1499 - Squaw Valley Ski Corp. v. Superior Court (1992), Poulin v. Provost (1974)
1 district · 30 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 McCarthy v. Souther · Carney v. Concord Street Railway · Collette v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Colby v. Lee · Paradis v. Greenberg
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the Emergency Doctrine, if a person is called upon to act in an emergency not created by his own negligence, he may still be found to be negligent for what he does or fails to do while acting in the emergency, but the fact that he was acting under the stress of emergency is a factor or circumstance to be considered in determining whether he was negligent. Where, however, an emergency not due to his own negligence leaves no time for thought, so that he must act instinctively, he cannot be held responsible for what he does under such circumstances, unless he is shown to be unfit to act in such an emergency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. London v. Perreault
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.