Haugh v. Kirsch’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1972 · most notably Glodenis v. American Brass Co. (1934), Cummings v. General Motors Corp. (1959)
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 Perry v. Haritos · Morse v. Consolidated Railway Co. · Stickney v. Epstein · Wolf v. Sulik · Lowe v. Hendrick
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.
“. . . when an automobile is maintained by the owner thereof for the general use and convenience of his or her family, such owner is liable for the negligence of a member of the family, having general authority to drive the car, while it is being used as such family car, that is, for the pleasure or convenience of the family or a member of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dibble v. Wolff
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.