Clements v. Tashjoin’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
15 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 354 So. 2d 54 - Vining v. Avis Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc. (1977), Bouldin v. Sategna (1963)
15 district · 18 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 2 Ill. 2d 74 - Ney v. Yellow Cab Co. · 43 Cal. 2d 60 - Richards v. Stanley · Falk v. Finkelman · Anderson v. Theisen · Permenter v. Milner Chevrolet 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial justice sustained the demurrer substantially on the ground that an independent intervening act of a third person broke the chain of causation between the negligence of defendant, if any, and the plaintiffs injury. He based his decision on the ground that defendant was not bound to anticipate that a tjiief would steal his automobile and negligently operate it so as to collide with another vehicle on the highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No 'person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to -stand -unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, removing the key, and effectively setting the brake thereon and, when standing upon any grade, turning the front-wheels to the curb or side of -the highway.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nolan v. Bacon““ * * * whether the negligence of defendant, if any, in leaving his automobile in the place and in the manner he did, was a concurring proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury notwithstanding that the thief’s negligence was the direct cause thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keefe v. McArdle
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.