Nastasio v. Cinnamon’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 199 - Walters v. Sloan (1977), 6 Cal. 3d 361 - Solgaard v. Guy F. Atkinson Co. (1971)
47 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 Wagner v. International Railway Co. · Shypulski v. Waldorf Paper Products Co. · Anderson v. Cinnamon · Smith v. Twin State Gas & Electric Co. · Behr v. Soth
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a voluntary act by a rescuer who in an emergency attempts a `rescue' prompted by a spontaneous, humane motive to save human life, and which `rescue' the rescuer had no duty to attempt in the sense of a legal obligation or in the sense of a duty fastened on him by virtue of his employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““whose duty is to extinguish fires and to protect property and life therefrom.” Behr v. Soth, 170 Minn. 278, 280 , 212 N.W. 461 , 462_ Volunteering ... in the sense that he agreed with his employer to perform his duties as a fireman at a time when he was off duty, does not make him a volunteer or make his action voluntary at the scene of the fire in so far as concerned the acts he performed in fighting the fire and in saving property and life.”
1 later decision 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.