O'Brien v. Schellberg’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably Gray v. Brinkerhoff (1953), 42 Cal. 2d 71 - Cucinella v. Weston Biscuit Co. (1954)
40 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 20 Cal. 2d 585 - Speck v. Sarver · Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. v. Freeman · Hicks v. Ocean Shore Railroad, Inc. · 10 Cal. 2d 232 - Hartman Ranch Co. v. Associated Oil Co. · Sheldon v. James
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of every pedestrian before entering a highway to make reasonably careful observations to ascertain traffic conditions to be encountered. It is his duty to look in the direction from which an approaching motorist might endanger his safety, to exercise reasonable care at all times within the marked crosswalk, and to continue to be alert to safeguard against injury. (Citing cases.) It is the duty of a pedestrian to exercise reasonable care while crossing a street of heavy traffic and such duty continues throughout his passage. . . . Whether he did so and whether the motorist who struck him exercised the proper amount of vigilance are questions for the jury’s determination. ...””
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.