Walker v. McClanahan’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
September 1972
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. · MacNeil v. Perkins · Throop v. FE Young and Company · Yoo Thun Lim v. Crespin · Capps v. American Airlines, Inc.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The accident must be of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone’s negligence. 2. It must be caused by an agency or instrumentality within the exclusive control of defendant. 3. It must not have been due to any voluntary action on the part of the plaintiff. 4. Plaintiff must not be in a position to show the particular circumstances which caused the offending agency or instrumentality to operate to his injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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