191 Pa. Super. 238 - Commonwealth v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2009
21 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 Commonwealth v. Bolish · Stark v. Lehigh Foundries, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Almeida · Commonwealth v. Comber · Commonwealth v. Mayberry
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a man’s negligence contributes to his injury or death, he, or those claiming under him, cannot recover damages in a civil suit. It has long been the policy of the common law that one who fails to look out for his own safety is not entitled to demand in court that he be compensated for the consequences of his failure.... The policy of the law is to protect human life, even the life of a person who wishes to destroy his own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Sandt
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.