55 Cal. App. 2d 92 - McDougall v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1966
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 36 Cal. App. 2d 700 - Casselman v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 92 Cal. App. 732 - Springer v. Pacific Fruit Exchange · Neilson v. Houle · 56 Cal. App. 718 - Uhl v. Fertig · De La Torre v. Johnson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a highway from a private road or driveway shall yield the right of way to all vehicles approaching on said highway."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nielson v. Mauchley · Reed v. Green““The true rule is that, under the section of the Vehicle Code above quoted, it is made the duty of the driver of an automobile entering the highway from a private drive to look for approaching cars, and not to proceed if one is coming, unless, as a reasonably prudent and cautious person he believes, and has a right to believe, that he can pass in front of the other in safety. * * * “Each case must turn upon its own facts. Contributory negligence as a matter of law, can only be found where reasonable minds cannot but conclude that a reasonably careful and prudent person situated as was plaintiff would not have acted as he did. The situations where a court will so declare are rare. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nielson v. Mauchley
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.