Crowe v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1973 · most notably Richardson v. Ham (1955), 8 Cal. 3d 689 - Miller v. Los Angeles County Flood Control District (1973)
26 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 Smellie v. Southern Pacific Co. · Hatzakorzian v. Rucker-Fuller Desk Co. · Hughes v. Atlantic City & Shore Railroad · 13 Cal. 2d 729 - People v. Mahoney · Dempsey v. Star House Movers, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that an intervening act of a third person is negligent in itself or is done in a negligent manner does not make it a superseding cause of harm to another which the actor's negligent conduct is a substantial factor in bringing about, if (a) the actor at the time of his negligent conduct should have realized that a third person might so act. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. Ham
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.