Powell v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2003
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(E)ven where there is some evidence that plaintiff's failure to exercise care in the use of defendant's equipment was a contributing cause producing the injury, the doctrine is not excluded as a matter of law; rather the case is to be submitted to the jury with proper instructions permitting the jury to draw the inference of defendant's negligence if it finds that plaintiff by his own conduct was not responsible for causing his injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... [T]he evidence ... [is] sufficient to show that both inspection and use of the ramp were in the control of defendant's servant and also that the probability that defendant's conduct was the cause of the fall is greater than the probability that the fall resulted from the negligence of another, including plaintiff... ."”
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.