Danner v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Burks v. Webb, Administratrix (1957), Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Mabin (1962)
11 federal appellate · 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 Hooker v. Hancock · Rhoades v. Meadows · Hoover v. J. P. Neff & Son, Inc. · Bethea v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Steinman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question as to whether a pedestrian, who is struck by an automobile or other motor vehicle, at or near a regular street crossing, or at a place customarily used as a crossing, exercised proper care, or has been guilty of contributory negligence which will defeat his recovery for injuries sustained by such collision, is almost invariably one for the jury.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff, who was crossing the street at a proper place, and who had the right-of-way over defendant’s vehicle, was not guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law in failing to keep a constant lookout for approaching vehicles from his left. Such a question is almost invariably one for the trier of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Stovall“It is a question of fact for the jury to determine as to whether or not pedestrian exercised reasonable care for his own safety as he attempted to cross street at intersection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Stovall
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.