Westcott v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · Zibbell v. Southern Pacific Co. · Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. McHugh · Johnston v. Long
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who does not see that which is clearly visible and would have been seen by one exercising ordinary care, as result of which a collision occurs, is guilty of negligence as a matter of law.”
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.