Evans v. Buchner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2014
13 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 Ridgeway v. North Star Terminal & Steve-Doring Co. · Rogers v. Dubiel · 119 F. Supp. 763 - Hay v. Nance
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.
“The general rule is that the defense of assumption of risk is not applicable unless the facts which create a dangerous condition or situation are known and the danger itself comprehended by the person against whom the defense is being exerted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leavitt v. Gillaspie“explained to the best of his recollection everything that occurred prior to the [car] overturning”
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.