Church v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1980
23 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 De La Torre v. Johnson · 114 Cal. App. 85 - Zohner v. Sierra Nevada Life & Casualty Co. · 49 Cal. App. 361 - Hurd v. City & County of San Francisco
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If you find from a preponderance of the evidence in this case that the plaintiff’s injuries, if any, resulted from, the combined negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant Marie Payne, such combined negligence, if any, both proximately contributing to the happening of the accident, then I charge you the plaintiff cannot recover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dicken v. Souther““No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent, having due regard for the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.””
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.