Arndt v. Russillo’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2016
6 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 Weston's Administratrix v. Hospital of St. Vincent · 119 W. Va. 215 - Hunn v. Windsor Hotel Co. · Dickenson v. Tabb · Arrington, Adm'r v. Graham, Adm'r · Budzinski v. Harris
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The associated defenses of contributory negligence and assumption of risk differ in that an objective reasonable man test is brought to bear on the former while the standard primarily to be applied to the latter is a subjective one, of what the particular plaintiff in fact sees, knows, understands and appreciates. Contributory negligence is carelessness. Assumption of the risk is vénturousness and has two requirements: the nature and extent of the risk must be fully appreciated and the risk must be voluntarily incurred. Knowledge of the risk involved is essential to its assumption.”
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.