Gray v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY, ETC. v. Cannon (1959), City of Phoenix v. Camfield (1965)
6 federal appellate · 64 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 People v. Haeussler · Schmid v. Eslick · 136 Cal. App. 2d 415 - Kalfus v. Fraze · Casey v. Marshall · 122 Cal. App. 2d 666 - Wells Truckways, Ltd. v. Cebrian
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An unavoidable accident is one which Occurs while all persons concerned are exercising ordinary care, that is, one not caused by the fault of any of the persons; if the accident producing the injury could have been prevented by either person by means suggested by common prudence it is not deemed unavoidable.” Gray v. Woods, 84 Ariz. -, 324 P.2d 220, 224 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is now generally recognized that a highway patrolman or other officer, when shown to have proper training and experience in the investigation of traffic accidents, testifying as an expert witness, may properly give an opinion as to the point of impact in a traffic accident where his opinion is based on marks on the highway, damage to the vehicles involved, and the location of debris on the highway or other indicia at the scene, but not when such opinion is founded on statements made to him by other persons.””
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.