Davison v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Thornton Ex Rel. Thornton v. Pender (1978), Bixenman v. Hall (1968)
6 federal appellate · 62 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 Alarid v. Vanier · Satterlee v. Orange Glenn School District · Larkins v. Kohlmeyer · Taylor v. Fitzpatrick · People v. . Wendel
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a person has disobeyed a statute he may excuse or justify the violation in a civil action for negligence by sustaining the burden of showing that he did what might reasonably be expected of a person of ordinary prudence, acting under similar circumstances, who desired to comply with the law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A mandatory instruction is one which unequivocally charges the jury that if they find from a preponderance of the evidence that a certain set of facts exists, they must render a verdict in accordance therewith either for the plaintiff or defendant' 2 Wiltrout, Indiana Practice, § 1400(8), p. 344 (1967)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We believe that the wisest course for the courts of Indiana to take in adjudication of a suit involving negligence by a violation of a safety regulation is to treat plaintiff’s proof of defendant’s violation of the safety regulation as creating a rebuttable presumption of negligence.””
2 later decisions 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.