McKay v. Hedger’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Schwartz v. Helms Bakery Limited (1967), Holmes v. City of Oakland (1968)
27 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. · Hatzakorzian v. Rucker-Fuller Desk Co. · Merrill v. Los Angeles Gas Elec. Co. · Stein v. United R.R. of S.F. · Cahill v. E. B. & A. L. Stone 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The driver] should have foreseen that some of them might run from behind the ice truck where they were hidden from the view of any motorist approaching from the east. ... Vehicular traffic is to be expected on a city street. In other words, we conclude that any reasonably prudent person should have anticipated the exact accident which happened had he thought of the results likely to occur.”
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.