84 Cal. App. 180 - Brown v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1957 · most notably 19 Cal. 2d 439 - Druzanich v. Criley (1942), Barrera v. De La Torre (1957)
35 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 Judson v. Giant Powder Co. · Scarborough v. Urgo · Klein v. Beeten · Ferrell v. Solski · Dowd v. Atlas Taxicab & Auto Service Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . ‘A carrier of persons without reward must use ordinary care and diligence for their safe carriage. ’ . . . Does this difference in the degree of care required of the two classes of carriers justify a distinction in the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur ? . . . The presumption originates from the nature of the act, not from the nature of the relations between the parties. ... It is not perceived that the probability of injury being the result of negligence is any less in case of a carriage without reward than one for reward. The doctrine has been held applicable in cases in which the injuring party was bound to the exercise of ordinary care only. . . . The doctrine has been applied in cases of injury to invited guests, caused by the operation of automobiles. ...””
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.