Critchley v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2016
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 Silver v. Silver · Colorado Springs Amusements, Ltd., Etc. v. Frank L. Rizzo, Mayor of Philadelphia · Ann Arbor Railroad v. United States · Laakonen v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Clark · Colorado Springs Amusements, Ltd. T/a Velvet Touch v. Mayor Frank L. Rizzo of the City of Philadelphia, Max Rubenstein T/a Philadelphia Health Club v. Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, of the City of Philadelphia
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contributory negligence was [once] a complete defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bol v. Campbell“contributory negligence is now only a partial defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bol v. Campbell
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.