Gray v. Brinkerhoff’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 41 Cal. 3d 962 - Perez v. Van Groningen & Sons, Inc. (1986), Richardson v. Ham (1955)
147 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · Estate of Bristol v. Young · Zibbell v. Southern Pacific Co. · Satterlee v. Orange Glenn School District · Anthony v. Hobbie
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that ‘Whether or not defendant was guilty of negligence ... or plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence ... is ordinarily a question of mixed fact and law and may be determined as a matter of law only if reasonable men following the law can draw but one conclusion from the evidence presented’ (Gray v. Brinkerhoff (1953), 41 Cal.2d 180, 183 [ 258 P.2d 834 ]) and ‘When two or more inferences can be reasonably deduced from the facts, the reviewing court is without power to substitute its deductions for those of the trial court [or jury] ’ [citing many cases]. ’ ’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even where the facts are undisputed, if reasonable minds might draw different conclusions upon the question of negligence, the question is one of fact for the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““560. Pedestrians’ Bight of Way at Crosswalks, (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. “ (b) Whenever any vehicle has stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.””
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.