Presnell v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Williams v. Carolina Power & Light Co. (1979), 55 N.C. App. 115 - Lenz v. Ridgewood Associates (1981)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Creech v. Sun Life Assurance · Ingram v. . Smoky Mountain Stages, Inc. · Badders v. Lassiter · Dowdy v. Southern Ry. Co. · Dowdy v. Southern Railway 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne who has capacity to understand and avoid a known danger and fails to take advantage of that opportunity, and injury results, . . . is chargable with contributory”
3 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.