Parmenter v. McDougall’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 1959 · most notably Campagna v. Market Street Railway Co. (1944), Bryant v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. (1917)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Little v. Hackett · Thompson v. Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway Co. · Brickell v. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. · Bresee v. Los Angeles Traction Co. · Tousley v. Pacific Electric Ry. 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of these decisions, while recognizing that the negligence of the person operating the vehicle is not imputed to the passenger, hold that the passenger is bound to exercise ordinary •care for his own safety, and that whether or not he exercised such care is a question of fact. Unless the evidence is all one way this question must be submitted to the jury.””
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.