Pappas v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1982
14 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 65 Cal. App. 2d 795 - Ostertag v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Shaw v. Addison · Barboza v. Pacific Portland Cement Co. · Criswell v. Seaman Body Corp. · Burke v. Reiter
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.
““Contributory negligence of a plaintiff is not to be measured by the degree of care defendant owes him. Tate v. Canary Cottage, 302 Ky. 313 , 194 S.W.2d 663, 665 . “We must not confuse plaintiff’s duty of looking out for his own safety with the duty owed by the railroad company to avoid injury to travelers on the highway at railroad crossings. Were the company being sued by Evans (defendant here) for damages suffered by him there would be involved a higher degree of care on the part of the railroad men on the motorcar because of the responsibility resting on the company to safeguard the public. But we are concerned here with the care plaintiff owed to himself.””
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.