Dayton v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1994
17 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 Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Ex Rel. Castranda · Foble v. Knefely · Stancliff v. H. B. Davis Co. · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Zapf · Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. v. Daniels
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There are very few unavoidable accidents; negligence produces most of them and an employee’s non-wilful negligence — his lapse from care — does not keep an injury-producing occurrence from being an accident nor bar his right to compensation.””
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.