Rutledge v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Ledbetter v. Webb (1985), Chavez v. Manville Products Corp. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 56 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 103 Cal. App. 2d 609 - Osborn v. City of Whittier · 33 Wis. 2d 601 - Ballard v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · Fox v. Doak · Kandelin v. Lee Moor Contracting Co. · Jones v. Pollock
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the doctrine of avoidable consequences a person injured by the tort of another is not entitled to damages for harm which he could have avoided by the use of due care after the commission of the tort. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * Further, * * * we do not lightly overturn the judgment of the trial court and must search the record for substantial evidence to support its findings. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Armstrong
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.