Rowles v. Evanuik’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Smith v. Bell Telephone Co. (1959), Enfield v. Stout (1960)
45 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 Littman v. Bell Tel. Co. of Pa. · Pfendler v. Speer · Gentile v. Philadelphia & Reading Ry. · Morin v. Kreidt · Miners Savings Bank v. Naylor
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person is killed in an accident, there is a presumption arising from general knowledge of the strength of the instinct of self-preservation and the natural desire to avoid pain and injury to one’s self that the deceased at the time of the accident was exercising due care.”
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.