Rabb v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Rosas v. Buddies Food Store (1975), Metal Structures Corp. v. Plains Textiles, Inc. (1971)
14 federal appellate · 13 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 Robert E. McKee, General Contractor v. Patterson · Triangle Motors of Dallas v. Richmond · Halepeska v. Callihan Interests, Inc. · Schiller v. Rice · Wood v. Kane Boiler Works, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Volenti is an affirmative defense to any negligence action in which defendant is responsible for a dangerous condition (static or non-static) or- activity of which the plaintiff knows, appreciates the danger and voluntarily exposes himself thereto. It is a separate concept from ‘no duty’ and the applicability of one is not determined by applicability of the other.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The success of the volenti defense in Texas cases has turned on whether or not it was established that the plaintiff knew he was exposing himself to the danger which in fact caused him harm.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. Answer: Yes If you have answered the foregoing Special Issue”
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.