Hall v. Sera’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Evans Products Co. v. Clinton Building Supply, Inc. (1978), Jackson v. Waller (1940)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Neff v. Neff · Aisenberg v. Adams Co., Inc. · Barber's Appeal From Probate · Auer v. Sinclair Refining Co. · 219 Mo. App. 162 - Burgess v. Garvin Price Merc. Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The important question, however, is not whether the company had physical control of the movements of the car at the time of the collision, but rather whether it had the right of general control over the driver himself a question of status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillespie v. FORD
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.