Devens v. Goldberg’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Hayes v. Richfield Oil Corp. (1952), 58 Cal. 2d 292 - Di Mare v. Cresci (1962)
51 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 Mosley v. Arden Farms Co. · 18 Cal. 2d 798 - Hatfield v. Levy Brothers · Smith v. Whittier · Neel v. Mannings, Inc. · 30 Cal. 2d 605 - Huth v. Katz
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In action against employer for injuries sustained by cleaning woman when porch railing gave way while she was shaking rug, whether a defective condition in railing existed, whether a reasonable inspection would have revealed the defect, and what constituted a reasonably adequate inspection under ceircum-stances were questions for jury.” “It is common knowledge that all wooden structures are liable to get out of repair and that exercise of care is necessary to guard against the wear and tear of use and time.””
2 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.