Owen v. Burcham

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “a child of the age of Randall [8 years, 11 months] is capable of negligence”
• “where both a general statute and a special or specific statute deal with the same subject matter, the provisions of the special or specific statute will control those of the general statute”
• inference must be based on probability and not on mere possibilities
• inference is unreasonable if based on mere speculation and conjecture

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Stephens v. Stearns
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1984-01-12· cited 138×
• Leliefeld v. Johnson
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 121×
• McBride v. Ford Motor Co.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1983-10-27· cited 56×
• Lanham v. Idaho Power Co.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1997-08-07· cited 48×
• Walker v. Shoshone County
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1987-04-07· cited 38×
• Kozlowski v. Rush
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1992-03-20· cited 34×
• Union Pacific Railroad v. Board of Tax Appeals
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1982-11-22· cited 32×
• All v. Smith's Management Corp.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1985-11-21· cited 29×
• Nebeker v. Piper Aircraft Corp.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 27×
• Driver v. SI CORP.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2003-11-13· cited 26×
• Garrett v. Nobles
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1981-06-24· cited 25×
• Gubler v. Boe
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1991-07-26· cited 25×
• State v. Galaviz
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1983-02-08· cited 22×
• Giles v. Mineral Resources International, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2014-10-30· cited 21×
• Johnson Equipment, Inc. v. Nielson
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1985-07-01· cited 17×
• De Los Santos v. JR Simplot Co., Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1995-05-23· cited 16×
• Elce v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1986-03-28· cited 12×
• Gillmor v. Gillmor
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1987-10-16· cited 12×
• Rowett v. Kelly Canyon Ski Hill, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1981-12-29· cited 12×
• Grease Spot, Inc. v. Harnes
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2010-02-01· cited 11×