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← 6 CALAPP2D 379 - Schneider v. Brecht

Schneider v. Brecht’s Empirical Analysis

1935

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
6
states following
January 1972
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1972 · most notably State v. Johnson (1972), 61 Cal. App. 2d 761 - Pennix v. Winton (1943)

35 state decisions

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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 Schwartz v. Johnson · Winston's Administrator v. City of Henderson · Hasten v. State · Lynn v. Goodwin · 104 Cal. App. 47 - Jones v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““While it is true, generally speaking, that ordinary negligence on the part of a plaintiff is not a defense upon which a defendant may rely when the complaint is based upon a charge of wilful misconduct, this overlooks a principle which we think must be considered, to wit: That where the negligence of the plaintiff is of such a character that it contributes to, and really becomes a part of, and the inducing cause of the defendant’s wilfoil misconduct, no recovery can be or should be had. ...” (Italics added.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Cal. App. 2d 341 - Johnson v. Marquis
  2. “guilty of every act complained of, as against the defendant, and participated in bringing about the mental condition of the defendant which culminated in the collision”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Williams v. Carr

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.