Blewett v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

1957

Citation profile

cited by 23 later decisions

states following

September 1981

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1981

2 federal appellate · 21 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 Baltimore Co v. Goodman · Gallardo v. Santini Fertilizer Co. · State v. Compton · Thompson v. Anderman · Crocker v. Johnston

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

““ * * * It must appear, (1) that plaintiff has been negligent, (2) that as a result of his negligence he is in a position of peril from which he cannot escape by the exercise of ordinary care, (3) that the defendant knows or should have known of plaintiff’s peril, and (4) that defendant then had a clear chance, by the exercise of ordinary care, to avoid the injury, and that he failed to do so. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Burnham v. Yellow Checker Cab, Inc.
“(a) That the plaintiff has been negligent; (b) That as a result of his negligence, he is in a position of peril, from which he cannot escape by the exercise of ordinary care; (c) That the defendant knows, or should have known, of plaintiff’s peril; and (d) That defendant then had a clear chance, by the exercise of ordinary care, to avoid the injury, and that he failed to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres
“Ordinarily, a showing of all three factors is essential to establish due care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, a Corporation v. Claudine McFarlin and Leonard McFarlin

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.