Bardin v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably 19 Cal. 3d 530 - Hasson v. Ford Motor Co. (1977), 3 Cal. 3d 756 - Haft v. Lone Palm Hotel (1970)
26 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 20 Cal. 2d 457 - Blank v. Coffin · Anthony v. Hobbie · De La Cuesta v. Calkins · 21 Cal. 2d 773 - Ferroni v. Pacific Finance Corp. · Bunch v. Kin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The 'circumstances, including the physical evidence,’ warrant only one conclusion—that without warning, the Loyd car shot across the road directly into the path of plaintiffs’ car, and that plaintiff Mr. Bardin had perhaps a second, at the most, in which to react. Plaintiff driver was not required to anticipate negligence on the part of the other driver [citing Bingham v. Greenamyer, 25 Cal.App.2d 467 ( 77 P.2d 867 )], nor may he be held guilty of contributory negligence because in a moment of imminent peril he failed to take the course that careful consideration after the fact shows that he ought to have taken [citation].” See also Flannery v. Koch, 103 Cal. App.2d 55, 59 [ 228 P.2d 580 ]. The nonsuit as to respondents Marjorie and Martin L. Brinson was properly granted.”
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.