Jones v. Bagwell’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1974
18 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in this jurisdiction that the violation of a town or city ordinance, or State statute, is negligence per se , but the violation must be the proximate cause of the injury. Ordinarily this is a question for the jury if there is any evidence, but if there is no evidence that the violation of the ordinance or statute is the proximate cause of the injury, this is for the court to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pearson v. . Luther
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.