Schaffner v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2000
18 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 Fabling v. Jones · Krause v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co. · Schell v. Kullhem · Colorado Utilities Corp. v. Casady · Kopplekom v. Colorado Cement Pipe 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is true that children of tender years are required to exercise only such care to avoid danger as may fairly and reasonably be expected from persons their age. Krause v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co., Inc., et al., 119 Colo. 73 , 200 P.2d 387 (1948). If there is a fair doubt as to whether the minor is chargeable with negligence due to its [sic] age, the question should be submitted to the jury. Colorado Utilities Corp. v. Casady, 89 Colo. 156 , 300 P. 601 (1931)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Fisher
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.