52 Cal. App. 2d 564 - Fraser v. Stellinger’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1964
16 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 97 Cal. App. 87 - Dougherty v. Ellingson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court refused the request (instruction on sudden emergency) ‘because the driver (Stellinger) had had the rider (plaintiff) in view for 1000 feet as shown by his own testimony.’ The ruling was not erroneous.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stickel v. Durfee · Kuist v. Curran“[f]urthermore the case was tried by the parties each claiming the accident was caused by the negligence of the other. The jury was fully instructed on the rules of law applicable to the respective theories of the alleged negligence of the defendant and the contributory negligence of the plaintiff.”
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.