England v. Costa’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eramdjian v. Interstate Bakery Corp. · Ouachita Wilderness Institute v. Mergen · Skinner v. R.J. Griffin & Co. · Coca Cola Bottling Co. v. Shipp · Murphy v. Hawthorne
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was the duty of all persons involved in the occurrence to use ordinary care for their own safety and the safety of others. Every person using ordinary care has a right to assume, until the contrary is or reasonably should be apparent, that every other person will use ordinary care. To act on that assumption is not negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally speaking, when the instruction is utilized in a contributory negligence case, the phrase `every person' in the instruction is intended to refer to the plaintiff.”
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.