Maher v. Fahy’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1986
23 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 Silver v. Silver · Bordonaro v. Senk · O'Keefe v. Fitzgerald · Grant v. MacLelland
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not share the doubt expressed by the trial court, as to whether he was guilty of negligence, but it was incumbent upon the plaintiff to prove more than that, for 'heedless and reckless disregard of the rights of others’ constitutes, in substance, wanton misconduct, consisting of a reckless disregard of the. just rights or safety of others in their lives, limbs, health, reputation, or property, or of the consequences of one’s action.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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. Lauritsen v. Lammers
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.