163 Cal. App. 2d 280 - Perrotti v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2016
20 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 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · 30 Cal. 2d 193 - Cope v. Davison · Polk v. City of Los Angeles · Robinson v. Western Pacific Railroad · 125 Cal. App. 2d 636 - Lowenthal v. Mortimer
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant complains of the admission of evidence of the details of her decedent’s prior accident. The details of the other accident, if properly objected to, should not be admitted since such proof might be given weight by the jury in passing on the question of decedent’s contributory negligence in this case. Evidence of previous accidents is properly excluded since it has no probative value on the question of the party’s negligence in the case at issue. (Lowenthal v. Mortimer, 125 Cal.App.2d 636, 640 [ 270 P.2d 942 ].) In contradistinction to such evidence, the mere fact of the accident and the testimony tending to show that decedent was emotionally upset when he started to cross the highway would seem relevant on the question of contributory negligence. (Cope v. Davison, 30 Cal.2d 193, 202 [ 180 P.2d 873 , 171 A.L.R. 667 ].) ” [Emphasis supplied.] The record clearly indicates that the trial court properly observed our holding and properly admitted the evidence for a limited purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perrotti v. Sampson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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