Stewart v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
February 1983
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mozert v. Noeding · Gray v. EJ Longyear Company · Thayer v. Denver & Rio Grande R. R. · Taylor v. McBee · Clark v. Rex Worrall & Canyon Hotels, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, contributory negligence is a question of fact for the trier of facts and not one of law. [Citations omitted] The question of contributory negligence properly becomes one of law only when reasonable minds cannot differ on the question and readily reach the conclusion that plaintiff’s conduct falls below the standard to which he should have conformed for his own protection and that plaintiff’s negligent conduct proximately contributed with that of defendant in causing the injury.” Stewart v. Barnes, 80 N.M. 102 , 451 P.2d 1006 (Ct.App.1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kight v. Butscher
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.