Sexton v. Key System Transit Lines’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2007
16 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 Holmes v. South Pacific Coast Railway · Hallinan v. Prindle · Wilkinson v. United Railroads of San Francisco · 131 Cal. App. 2d 751 - Harris v. Lampert · 6 Cal. 2d 596 - Mac Gregor v. Pacific Electric Railway 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pain and suffering are not subject to precise measurement by any scale, and their translation into terms of money damages is peculiarly, the function of the trier of the facts. [Citation.]”
2 later decisions 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.