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comparative negligence

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 305 U.S. 424 - Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith · 1939Most cited · 946 citing opinions

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Under that doctrine contributory negligence, however gross, is not a bar to recovery but only mitigates damages.

How often courts cite the case defining “comparative negligence”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “comparative negligence” — 942 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.