Greeley v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Caporale v. C. W. Blakeslee & Sons, Inc. (1961), Gallagher's Estate v. Battle (1956)
3 federal appellate · 60 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 Crowell v. Duncan · Gonchar v. Kelson · 107 Ohio St. 501 - Elliott v. Hardins · Rush v. McDonnell · Hopkins v. Droppers
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests primarily upon the negligence of the owner in intrusting [sic] the automobile to the incompetent driver,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the owner may be liable for injury resulting from the operation of an automobile he loans to another, when he knows or ought reasonably to know that the one to whom he intrusts it is so incompetent to operate it , by reason of inexperience or other cause, that the owner ought reasonably to anticipate the likelihood that in its operation injury will be done to others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An automobile, while capable of doing great injury when not properly operated upon the highways, is not an intrinsically dangerous instrumentality . . . and liability cannot be imposed upon an owner merely because he intrusts it to another to drive upon the highways.”
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.