39 Or. App. 211 - Cole v. Multnomah County’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2010
5 federal appellate · 11 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 67 Cal. 2d 465 - Vistica v. Presbyterian Hospital & Medical Center of San Francisco, Inc. · Waterway Terminals Co. v. P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors · 4 Wash. App. 14 - Hunt v. King County · Hecker v. Oregon Railroad · Ashland v. Pacific Power & Light Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants’ allegations of contributory negligence simply restate what plaintiff alleged in his complaint — that he was driven by mental illness to attempt suicide. Under these circumstances, the acts which plaintiff’s mental illness allegedly caused him to commit were the very acts which defendants had a duty to prevent, and these same acts cannot, as a matter of law, constitute contributory negligence. (Citations omitted). If plaintiff were not mentally ill, or if corrections officials were reasonably unaware of any illness, then defendants prevail because they were not negligent, not because plaintiff was contributorily negligent. [Id. at 223.]”
3 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.