Stearman v. Miranda’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably McDowell v. Davis (1968), Brand v. JH Rose Trucking Company (1967)
32 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 Nichols v. City of Phoenix · Young Candy & Tobacco Company v. Montoya · Alires v. Southern Pacific Company · Gray v. Woods · Figueroa v. Majors
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proximate cause of an injury is that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.” [Citations]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDowell v. Davis
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.