Gale v. Kay’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2005
6 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 Alamo v. Del Rosario · 16 Cal. 2d 80 - Gibson v. County of Mendocino · Holland v. Morgan & Peacock Properties Co. · Gioldi v. Sartorio · 49 Wash. 2d 47 - Dahlgren v. Blomeen
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * However, in giving her testimony Mrs. Gibson was not making an admission or testifying to a faet peculiarly with in her own knowledge, — she was merely giving a narration of ' events as they appeared to her at or immediately prior to the1 ¡happening of the accident. She, therefore, was not conclusively ■hound by her own testimony as against circumstantial or other evidence bearing on the question of proximate cause which the fact-finding body might fairly have believed. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.