Dynes v. Bromley’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 1960
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kehler v. Schwenk · Parker v. Washington Electric Street Railway Co.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The measure of the boy's responsibility for contributory negligence is his capacity to understand and avoid danger. The standard of responsibility to which, in the absence of evidence on the subject, he will be held is the average capacity of others of the same age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Staszak v. Seibel
How this case has been treated — in progress
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