Jacob v. Key System Transit Lines’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
February 1981
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 20 Cal. 2d 488 - Routh v. Quinn · Leet v. Union Pacific Railroad · Sherman v. Hartman · 86 Cal. App. 459 - Moeller v. Packard · Miller v. Southern Pacific 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ “If you find that defendant’s negligence was the proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury, plaintiff is entitled to damages, if any preexisting condition on the part of the plaintiff has more readily predisposed him to such injury, even though defendant’s negligence would not have caused injury to a person that did not have the preexisting condition such as the 'plaintiff' had. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hazel v. McGrath
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.