Young v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably McCall v. Wilder (1995), Dunleavy v. Miller (1993)
24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Lewis v. Buckskin Joe's, Inc. · Converse v. Zinke · Simonson v. White · DiCenzo v. Izawa · Montgomery Elevator Co. v. Gordon
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who, through no fault of his or her own, is placed in a sudden emergency, is not chargeable with negligence if the person exercises that degree of care which a reasonably careful person would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weiss v. Bal · Vu v. Fouts“merely serves as an explanatory instruction, offered for purposes of clarification for the jury's benefit,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vu v. Fouts · Wiles v. Webb“a person confronted with sudden or unexpected circumstances calling for immediate action is not expected to exercise the judgment of one acting under normal conditions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.