D.C. Transit System, Inc. v. Darryl Bates, an Infant, by His Father and Next Friend, Raymond Bates’s Empirical Analysis
262 F.2d 697 · 1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1978
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Capital Transit Co. v. Gamble · Barstow v. Capital Traction Co. · Roberts v. Capital Transit Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is immaterial here because there was no showing of primary negligence on the part of the bus driver; the truth is the accident was /,,l“ solely to Darryl’s act in running into the street without any indication of his intention to do so, against a warning light which he had seen and understood, and without looking for approaching traffic. This violation of a traffic regulation 3 was negligence per se, unless it can be said that, because of his age, Darryl was incapable of negligence. 262 F.2d at page 700 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrell v. Pimsler
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.