Layton v. Rocha’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Grant v. Arizona Public Service Co. (1982), Hall v. A.N.R. Freight System, Inc. (1986)
2 federal appellate · 177 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 Davis v. Boggs · General Petroleum Corp. v. Barker · Alabam Freight Lines v. Phoenix Bakery, Inc. · Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. v. Conwell · Keystone Copper Mining Co. v. Miller
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact and shall, at all times, be left to the jury.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even though the undisputed evidence shows that plaintiff's negligence did as a fact contribute to the injury the jury may find in favor of the plaintiff and this court cannot direct a new trial.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Layton, supra, the instruction was: “ * * * if both parties were negligent and such negligence proximately contributed to bringing about the accident the law would leave them where it finds them ‘and the plaintiff may not be entitled to recover and your verdict may be for the defendant.’ ” 90 Ariz. at 370 , 368 P.2d at 444 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. Pickett
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.