Davis v. Trobough’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Clark v. Norris (1987), Erhart v. Great Western Sugar Company (1976)
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 8 Cal. 2d 82 - Ales v. Ryan · Maki v. Murray Hospital · Aderhold v. Bishop · Vonault v. O'Rourke · Whitney v. Northwest Greyhound Lines, Inc.
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.
““ [W]hen an instrumentality which causes injury without any fault of the injured person, is under the exclusive control of the defendant at the time of the injury, and the injury is such as in the ordinary course of things does not occur if one having such control uses proper care, then the law infers negligence on the part of the one in control as the cause of the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Norris
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.