Rust v. Schlaitzer’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2004
13 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 Abb v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Rosenstrom v. North Bend Stage Line · 92 Cal. App. 701 - Hawber v. Raley · Martin v. Cunningham · Jacklin v. North Coast Transportation 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, notwithstanding the negligence of the bus driver, we think Schlaitzer himself was guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of fact. According to his own testimony, the Rust car was only eighty feet away when he started across the easterly pavement. He was the disfavored driver entering upon an arterial highway. As such, the obligation was upon him to avoid collision with vehicles approaching thereon in such close proximity to the intersection. [Citing authorities.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graves v. Flesher““For three or four miles, he had been following the Rust car with a space intervening of only about thirty feet. This provided little or no margin to avoid collision with the Rust car if the latter stopped under any conditions, as the event proved.””
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.