Hudson v. Rainville’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably Putensen v. Clay Adams, Inc. (1970), 181 Cal. App. 2d 387 - Davy v. Public National Insurance (1960)
37 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 Gray v. Brinkerhoff · 91 Cal. App. 2d 142 - Huetter v. Andrews · Hamlin v. Pacific Electric Ry. Co. · 136 Cal. App. 2d 415 - Kalfus v. Fraze · Salomon v. Meyer
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not defendant was guilty of negligence [citations] or plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence [citations] 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. [Citations.]”
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.