Poyner v. Loftus’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2022
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Colbert v. Georgetown University · Keith v. Worcester & Blackstone Valley Street Railway Co. · Washington v. a & H Garcias Trash Hauling Co. · Cook v. City of Winston-Salem
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the critical moment, according to his own testimony, Poyner, who could see six to eight feet in front of him and was aware of his handicap, did not look where he was going.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]nly in the exceptional case is evidence so clear and unambiguous that contributory negligence should be found as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failed either to look at all or to look observantly and see what should have been plainly visible.”
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.