Grant v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably CARSON BY MEREDITH v. LeBlanc (1993), Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Dungee (1999)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Gough v. Shaner · Morris v. Peyton · Birtcherd Dairy v. Edwards, Adm'r · Sheckler v. Anderson · P. L. Farmer, Inc. v. Cimino
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Virginia, a child under 7 years of age is conclusively presumed to be incapable of contributory negligence. Children between the ages of 7 and 14 are presumed to be incapable of exercising care and caution for their own safety, and this presumption prevails unless rebutted by sufficient proof to the contrary. After a child reaches the age of 14, he loses the benefit of all presumptions in his favor. He is presumed to have sufficient capacity to be sensible of danger and to have the power to avoid it, and this presumption will stand until overcome by clear proof of the absence of such discretion as is usual with infants of that age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.