Hensley v. Braden’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1968
22 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 Girdner v. Union Oil Co. · Stull's Administratrix v. Kentucky Traction & Terminal Co. · Pere Marquette Railroad v. Strange · 118 Cal. App. 643 - Choquette v. Key System Transit Co. · Mobile O.R. Co. v. Johnson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The operator -of a taxi who permits a passenger to alight from a car at a place not ordinarily used in discharging passengers and where many vehicles are accustomed to pass is not bound to warn the passenger of the danger of passing traffic nor to protect him from such danger after he has left the car. The fundamental reason of this rule is, the conditions which constitute the danger to the passenger are 'as observable by,’ and ‘apparently as obvious to, him’ as to the owner or operator of the taxi.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Dillman
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.