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140 Cal. App. 2d 666 - Nunnemaker v. Headlee’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

cited by 23 later decisions

states following

April 1962

most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Smellie v. Southern Pacific Co. · Westberg v. Willde · Mar Shee v. Maryland Assurance Corp. · 20 Cal. 2d 585 - Speck v. Sarver · Gigliotti v. Nunes

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The considerations pointing to negligence would have to overcome not only those pointing to a contrary conclusion, but also the presumption that defendant was not negligent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 158 Cal. App. 2d 419 - Hughes v. City & County of San Francisco · 203 Cal. App. 2d 72 - Klein v. Southern Pac. Co.
“it could well be that the jury, relying upon the presumption, determined that respondent was not negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 203 Cal. App. 2d 72 - Klein v. Southern Pac. Co.

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.