Wick v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2015
2 federal appellate · 4 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 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · DeBurkarte v. Louvar · Wiles v. Myerly · Reuter v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · Frost v. Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy & Surgery
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendants had exclusive control and management of the instrument that caused the plaintiff's injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was the type of injury that ordinarily would not occur if reasonable care had been used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the test has become one of right of control rather than actual control.”
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.