117 Cal. App. 208 - Johnston v. Peairs’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1980 · most notably 104 Cal. App. 2d 716 - Zelayeta v. Pacific Greyhound Lines, Inc. (1951), 16 Cal. App. 2d 676 - Linde v. Emmick (1936)
42 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 116 Cal. App. 1 - Fishman v. Silva · 101 Cal. App. 503 - Crabbe v. Rhoades · 100 Cal. App. 775 - Von Stetten v. Yellow-Checker Cab Co. · 101 Cal. App. 680 - Burns v. Osborne-Fitzpatrick Finance 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... it is clear that the liability of appellant . . . depended entirely upon the answer to the questions whether he himself was or was not negligent, and whether or not such negligence, if it existed, proximately caused or contributed to the injuries complained of. These questions are wholly independent of the question as to whether or not his codefendant . . . was also liable.””
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.