Davis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably Shaw v. Pacific Greyhound Lines (1958), Pobor v. Western Pacific Railroad (1961)
2 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 Estate of Dolbeer · People v. Superior Court · 79 Cal. App. 2d 590 - Simon v. City & County of San Francisco · Gett v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. · 35 Cal. 2d 40 - Powell v. Pacific Electric Railway 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule was properly admitted in evidence as bearing on the standard of care respondent thought appropriate to insure the safety of others at its track crossings.”
1 later decision 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.