Slaughter v. D. C. Transit System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.2d 741 · 1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1999
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Jesionowski v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Lake Central Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Slaughter v. D. C. Transit System, Inc. · Brown v. Capital Transit Co. · State v. Cuezze
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tjaken as a whole, the evidence is sufficient so that a jury could find (1) that some negligence of appellee was the proximate cause of appellant’s injury, and (2) that the appellant’s conduct was not a proximate cause of the injury. Of course, the jury might with equal propriety conclude the contrary, but it was error to direct a verdict for the appellee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.