Hall v. Royce’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1990 · most notably Conway v. O'Brien (1941), Crawford v. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company (1966)
8 federal appellate · 19 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 King v. Viscoloid Co. · Tyrrell v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Shiels v. Audette · Hatch v. Daniels · Shaw, Admr. v. Moore
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as the defendant Royce is concerned, it is quite apparent that the suit must fail, unless there was evidence fairly and reasonably tending to show that she was grossly or wilfully careless. For of such, alone, consists the right of action of a gratuitous guest. P. L. 5113. Nor does her father stand any better here, for his right of action, if he has any, while independent of hers, in some respects, see King v. Viscoloid Co., 219 Mass. 420 ( 106 N. E. 988 , Ann. Cas. 1916D, 1170), is founded upon the same breach of duty as that sued on by the minor. And if the latter cannot recover the parent cannot. Thompson v. United Laboratories Co., 221 Mass. 276 ( 108 N. E. 1042 , 1043); Regan v. Superb Theatre, Inc., 220 Mass. 259 ( 107 N. E. 984 ); Central Ga. R. Co. v. Robins, 209 Ala. 12 ( 95 South. 370 ); Callies v. Reliance Laundry Co., 188 Wis. 376 ( 206 N. W. 198 , 42 A. L. R. 712, 715); Shiels v. Audette, 119 Conn. 75 ( 174 Atl. 323 , 94 A. L. R. 1206, 1208), and note.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arritt v. Fisher
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.