Waddle v. Nelkin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
June 1999
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Watkins v. Prudential Insurance · Mockowik v. Kansas City · Lobalzo v. Varoli · Auel v. White · 337 Pa. Super. 617 - Harka v. Nabati
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a plaintiffs mind is blank as to an accident and all its incidents, the presumption is that he did all that the law required him to do and was not guilty of contributory negligence. The presumption, however, is a rebuttable one and must give way when the facts as established by the plaintiffs evidence show that he was guilty of contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marks v. Swayne
How this case has been treated — in progress
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