3 Cal. App. 4th 784 - Webster v. Ebright’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2012
6 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 40 Cal. 3d 780 - Lopez v. Southern California Rapid Transit District · 46 Cal. 3d 1147 - State of California Ex Rel. Van De Kamp v. Texaco · 64 Cal. App. 249 - Gornstein v. Priver · Kline v. Santa Barbara Etc. Ry. Co. · 133 Cal. App. 124 - Shannon v. Central-Gaither Union School District
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A carrier of persons for reward must use the utmost care and diligence for their safe carriage, must provide everything necessary for the purpose, and must exercise to that end a reasonable degree of skill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he duty imposed by section 2100 applies to public carriers as well as private carriers....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a contract for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages, from one place to another.”
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.