Signorelli v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1994
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Mosley v. Arden Farms Co. · George v. Bekins Van & Storage Co. · Nunneley v. Edgar Hotel · Benton v. Sloss
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.
“... had been properly located, its location was not a substantial factor in bringing about the ... [collision] and was therefore not a contributing cause thereof. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]rdinarily it cannot be proved conclusively what would have happened if something else had not happened.”
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.