Pannu v. Jacobson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Morrison v. MacNamara · Bueno v. City of Donna · Etheredge v. District of Columbia
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence is a relative concept. A reasonable person changes his conduct according to the circumstances or according to the danger that he knows or should know exists. Therefore, as the danger increases, a reasonable person acts in accordance with those circumstance[s]. Similarly, as the danger increases, a reasonable person acts more carefully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Naccache v. Taylor“[I]t is incumbent on the trial court to properly instruct the jury on the law.... [T]he trial court must give the jury an accurate and fair statement of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.