Goodwin v. Hare’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2020
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 O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · 31 Cal. 3d 362 - Lipson v. Superior Court · Mahoney v. Carus Chemical Co., Inc. · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Crouch · Pearson v. Canada Contracting Co., Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fireman assumes the usual risks inherently involved in fire fighting. The rationale of this view may be expressed as follows: The fireman, from the very nature of the public duty undertaken by him, is bound to aid in suppressing fires, however caused. It is well known that there is negligence present in the origin of many, if not most, fires and that there is a potential danger inherent in all. In responding to an alarm, the fireman necessarily is aware that fire is in progress and the usual hazards are apt to exist; yet his duty so to respond is unaffected by the fact that the fire may have been created by negligence. If injured while encountering the ordinary hazards Ms duty requires him to confront, it is immaterial that the fire was negligently set.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hudgins v. Holman
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.