95 Cal. App. 162 - Pontecorvo v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1995
2 district · 13 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 Treadwell v. Whittier · Champagne v. A. HamBurger & Sons, Inc. · Connor v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Studer v. Southern Pacific Co. · McCurrie v. Southern Pacific 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A carrier of persons for reward is bound to provide vehicles safe and fit for the purposes to which they are put, and is not excused for default in this respect by any degree of care.” [Enacted 1872.] 2 BAJI Instruction 204-B:”
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.