Hamblet v. Soderburg’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1976
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Silverstein v. Adams · Steinheim v. Nicholas · Gottstein v. Daly · Jones v. City of Seattle
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Present day traffic upon our streets and highways is of such a nature that the duty of reasonable care, which rests upon all, requires, in almost any conceivable situation, a fairly efficient attempt at observation before a pedestrian steps into the path of vehicular traffic. “Where, as here, no attempt at observation is made and especially where one steps out from behind an obscuring object, the pedestrian is guilty of negligence as a matter of law. “This conclusion seems to be self-evident, but reference may be had to the following of our cases, which, in principle at least, sustain our present holding. Jones v. Seattle, 144 Wash. 188 , 257 Pac. 393 ; Gottstein v. Daly, 166 Wash. 582 , 7 P. (2d) 610 . “Even had there been testimony that Mrs. Hamblet had looked but did not see the approaching automobile, still there could have been no recovery. Silverstein v. Adams, 134 Wash. 430 , 235 Pac. 784 ; Steinheim v. Nicholas, 171 Wash. 614 , 18 P. (2d) 836 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There being testimony as to every movement of the deceased, there is no room for a presumption that she used due care. The facts are clear and undisputed, presenting no question upon which reasonable minds might differ and therefore no question to go 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.