7 Cal. App. 473 - King v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1969
20 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 Scott v. San Bernardino Valley Traction Co. · Smith v. Westerfield · Schneider v. Market Street Railway Co. · Clark v. Bennett · Manning v. Gasharie
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Had a pedestrian with no occupation requiring his presence in that part of the street devoted to the use of vehicles been struck by a passing vehicle while he was backing along the roadway without looking to see where he was going, it is clear that he would have been guilty of contributory negligence . . . but the rights of a laborer whose duties require him to be in the roadway cannot be determined by the same rule. ’ ’”
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.