Dicken v. Souther’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1961
12 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 Douglas v. Southern Pacific Co. · 83 Cal. App. 358 - Giorgetti v. Wollaston · 117 Cal. App. 372 - Solko v. Jones · Jordan v. Great Western Motorways · Church v. Payne
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The doctrine of contributory negligence which will prohibit a plaintiff from recovering damages for injuries received is based on ‘such an act or omission on the part of the plaintiff amounting to a want of ordinary care as concurring or cooperating with the negligent act of a defendant, was the proximate cause of the injury complained of.’ ””
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.