136 Cal. App. 97 - Forsman v. Colton’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1976 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo (1973), Sidle v. Majors (1976)
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 Callet v. Alioto · Burns's Case · 43 Cal. App. 416 - Helme v. Great Western Milling Co. · 132 Cal. App. 124 - Howard v. Howard · Perera v. Panama-Pacific International Exp. 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘* * * The fact that the father permitted sleep to overcome him and drove the car while asleep is the only proposition argued by the parties as the cause of the accident. There is no evidence of any other cause. Can it be said that a person, while driving along the highway, who is involuntarily overcome by sleep is guilty of reckless operation of the automobile within the meaning of the law? We think not. * * * His unconscious conduct while asleep, or semiconscious conduct while going to sleep, or the mere fact that he permitted sleep to overcome him, do not evince a heedless disregard of the rights of the daughter.’ Coconower v . Stoddard (Ind. App.), 182 N. E. 466, 469 . Weighing the evidence adduced in the light of the definition of willful misconduct, we must hold that no willful misconduct is here shown and the order granting the non-suit was proper.””
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.