Dix v. Spampinato’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Harris v. Jones (1977), Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. (1978)
30 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 Glanzer v. . Shepard · Nizer v. Phelps · Yommer v. McKenzie · Northern Central Railway Co. v. State ex rel. Price · Wulf v. Rebbun
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has often held it to be contributory negligence as a matter of law for a pedestrian to leave a place of safety for a position of peril between street crossings, thereby contesting the right of way of vehicular traffic then in the street.” Vokroy v. Johnson, 233 Md. 269, 273-74 [ 196 A.2d 451 ] (1964); see also Leonard v. Hanson, 225 Md. 76, 79 [ 169 A.2d 459 ] (1961); Campbell v. Jenifer, 222 Md. [106,] 111 [ 159 A.2d 353 (1960) ]. Miss Dix attempts to skirt the rule of these cases by her contention that because Mrs. Horak stopped the Volkswagen bus and waived Miss Dix on, Mrs. Spampinato should have been alerted by this circumstance, but instead did nothing to avoid hitting Miss Dix. The fallacy in this argument is that Miss Dix, by her own testimony, admitted that she never saw Mrs. Spampinato’s car, which can only mean that Miss Dix either never looked or did not see when she did look before she left a place of safety in front of the Volkswagen bus, Henderson v. Brown, 214 Md. 463, 472 [ 135 A.2d 881 ] (1957).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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