Venuto v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.2d 679 · 1941
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Carolina Casualty Insurance Company v. Insurance Company of North America T II Refrigerated Transport Co Inc (1979), Newsome v. Surratt (1953)
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Stoner v. New York Life Insurance · Bates Motor Transport Lines, Inc. v. Mayer, Admx. · Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Banion · Courtinard v. Gray Burial & Cremation Co. · Giroud v. Stryker Transportation 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An individual or a corporation carrying on an activity which can be lawfully carried on only under a franchise, granted by public authority and which involves an unreasonable risk of, harm to others, is subject to liability for bodily harm caused to such others by the negligence of a contractor employed to do work in carrying on the activity.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Inter-state motor carriage is now regulated by elaborate rules and regulations set out in the Motor Carrier Act of 1935 and the regulations thereunder. The carriage of freight in high powered motor vehicles on public highways is certainly business attended with very considerable risk. The rule stated has been applied in cases against railroads to hold a lessor railroad liable even where the relationship has been lessor and lessee without even general control or direction by the lessor over the lessee. The application of one employed by a common carrier by motor truck upon the public highways is an even clearer case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.