Capital Transit Co. v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.2d 283 · 1947
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1991 · most notably Neely v. Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. (1967), Masterson v. Atherton (1962)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Ewing v. Goode · Kelly Furniture Co. v. Washington Ry. & Electric 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence as to primary negligence produced by the plaintiff is so weak that to submit it to a jury would be to allow them to speculate as to the defendant's negligence the question of contributory negligence does not enter * * *;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [T]he maximum time which the motorman had to avoid the accident was a little less than the time it took the child to run fast the thirteen feet. * * * We cannot see how the motorman could possibly be held to have been negligent in failing to stop in so brief a moment of time.”
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.