MacDonald v. Eichenauer’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1994
10 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 Womack v. Preach · West v. Cruz · Southwest Cotton Co. v. Clements · Dennis v. Stukey
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here plaintiff placed himself in a position of danger wherein he should have foreseen that a particular harm, to wit, bodily injuries inflicted by movement of the farm machinery, might be the end result of his act. The force which caused the movement of the machinery might come from one or more of a number of sources or be set off by varying circumstances not foreseeable in all their detail. However, this does not excuse the plaintiff’s fault in voluntarily undertaking a known risk of harm which a reasonably prudent person would not have undertaken in the same circumstances, which caused or contributed to his injuries. In this connection it is also urged that plaintiff did not cause or contribute to his own injuries except in the sense that he furnished himself as the victim of defendant’s negligence. However, we think the causal requirement is satisfied by plaintiff’s voluntarily subjecting himself to an unreasonable risk of harm, ■and there is a sufficient nexus between his acts and the injury suffered for reasonable men to impute fault or responsibility therefor to him, and this is all the law requires.” [emphasis added.] 77 Ariz. at 255 , 269 P.2d at 1059 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If there is any substantial evidence from which reasonable men may infer that the party claiming affirmative relief from harm caused by the alleged negligence of another was himself negligent and such negligence caused or contributed to the harm suffered, then the jury must resolve the issue.” [Emphasis added.] 77 Ariz. at 254 , 269 P.2d at 1058 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Wise
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.