Shaw, Admr. v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably State v. Bolsinger (1946), Conway v. O'Brien (1941)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Altman v. Aronson · Massaletti v. Fitzroy · Cook v. Cole · Delawter v. Delawter · Marcienowski v. Sanders
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“falls short of being such reckless disregard of probable consequences as is equivalent to a wilful and intentional wrong. Ordinary and gross negligence differ in degree of inattention, while both differ in kind from wilful and intentional conduct which is or ought to be known to have a tendency to injure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The owner or operator of a motor vehicle shall not be liable in damages for injuries received by any occupant of the same occasioned by reason of the operation of such vehicle unless such owner or operator has received or contracted to receive pay for the carriage of such occupant, or unless such injuries are caused by the gross or wilful negligence of the operator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burke v. Spear
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.