Jara v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1981
7 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 Seinsheimer v. Burkhart · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Day · Trochta v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas · Lang v. Henderson · Barron v. Houston E. & W. T. Ry. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With Hernandez on the track under the circumstances related by him, it was reasonable to conclude that the engineer and fireman could have discovered him in time to have stopped the train, if they had been keeping a proper lookout. The headlight of the train1 was burning. Accordingly, the jury’s finding that their negligence in failing to keep a proper lookout was a proximate cause of appellant’s injury was supported by the evidence and should not here be set aside.””
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.