Smith v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2013
8 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 Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Inc. v. Scott · Fall v. White · Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Blaylock · Harris v. Cacdac
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule on the issue of the plaintiffs contributory negligence is that the plaintiff must exercise that degree of care that an ordinary reasonable man would exercise in like or similar circumstances. Contributory negligence is conduct on the part of the plaintiff, contributing as a legal cause to the harm he has suffered, which falls below the standard to which he is required to conform for his own protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Clark“must unite in producing the injury, being simultaneous and cooperating with the fault of the defendant and entering into the creation of the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavens v. Zaberdac“that Smith's desire to sport a full head of hair motivated him to pursue remedies that he knowingly undertook at his own peril.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spar v. JIN S. CHA
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.