Saxe v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Shea v. Olson (1936), 41 Wash. 2d 642 - Borst v. Borst (1952)
3 federal appellate · 38 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 Sears v. Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Co. · Heiman v. Kloizner · McConkey v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. · Fleming v. Red Top Cab Co. · Smith v. Seattle School District No. 1
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Varying degrees of negligence, or varying degrees of required care, if one prefers to have the proposition so stated, touching the question of liability rested upon the ground of negligence, have been repeatedly recognized by us as a practicable working principle of the law of this state. [Citing cases.] We do not mean by this that varying degrees of negligence or required care have been or can be differentiated with any sort of precision. Only that differing situations, conditions and relations call for differing degrees of care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“That opinion [Heiman v. Kloizner, supra] does not definitely fix the degree of lack of care which must be shown by an invited guest before liability will result. It holds that that degree is somewhere between that required where the carriage is one for hire and that necessary to be exercised with reference to the safety of a mere trespasser. From that it must follow that before an invited guest can recover a showing of gross negligence is necessary.”
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.