McHugh v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
7 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Jardel Co., Inc. v. Hughes (1987), 323 Pa. Super. 466 - Miller v. Gay (1983)
7 district · 39 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 Gallegher v. Davis · Law v. Gallegher · Biddle v. Boyd · 82 Ohio App. 487 - Tighe v. Diamond · Cannon v. Bastian
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Wanton conduct, resulting in injury to another, therefore, may be said to be such conduct as exhibits a conscious indifference to consequences in circumstances where probability of harm to another within the circumference of the conduct is reasonably apparent, although harm to such other is not intended." (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The guest statute, ... , is a statute of a special nature, dealing with one specific feature of the liability of an owner or operator of a car to a limited class of persons — guests riding in his car at the time of the accident. It is a general rule that in such a case the two statutes are read together and harmonized, and that in the event of repugnancy the special statute prevails .... The Delaware statutes, read together, may be harmonized by construing the parental-responsibility statute as placing liability on the parent in all cases in which the minor is liable to a third party, but eliminating the parents ’ liability in cases in which the minor is not liable to a guest. (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kyser v. Porter“"* * * The Delaware statutes, read together, may be harmonized by construing the parental-responsibility statute as placing liability on the parent in all cases in which the minor is liable to a third party, but eliminating the parent's liability in cases in which the minor is not liable to a guest. "This construction of the statutes finds some support in the language of the parental-responsibility statute. The parent is `jointly and severally liable with' the minor. (Emphasis supplied.) This appears to mean that the parent is liable to the extent, but only to the extent, that the minor is liable." McHugh v. Brown, 11 Terry 154 , 50 Del. 154 , 125 A.2d 583, 587 (1956).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers v. Freborg
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.