Marks v. Dorkin’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1996
21 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 Clarke v. Connecticut Co. · Dickerson v. Connecticut Co. · Birmingham Ry., Light & Power Co. v. Barranco · Marks v. Dorkin
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]enerally a passenger in an automobile should sit still and say nothing, because any other course is fraught with danger. Interference by laying hold of an operating lever, or by exclamation, or even by direction or inquiry, is generally to be deprecated, as in the long run the greater safety lies in letting the driver alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] gratuitous passenger, in no matter what, vehicle, is not expected, ordinarily, to give advice or direction as to [the vehicle's] control and management. To do so might be harmful rather than helpful.”
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.