Leonard v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1997
11 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 Campbell v. Jenifer · Gitomir v. United Railways & Electric Co. · Storrs v. Hink · Jendrzejewski v. Baker
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has often held it to be contributory negligence as a matter of law for a pedestrian to leave a place of safety for a position of peril between street crossings, thereby contesting the right of way of vehicular traffic then in the street. Leonard v. Hanson, 225 Md. 76 , 169 A. 2d 459 ; Campbell v. Jenifer, 222 Md. 106, 111 , 159 A. 2d 353 , and cases there cited.””
2 later decisions 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.