Schevling v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1990
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The verdict also imported a finding that Toohey, the third-party plaintiff, was using the substituted automobile with the “permission” of the named insured, Ruppert Johnson. I think there was ample evidence from which the jury might have found that Charles had his father’s implied permission to lend the Chevrolet. On this issue there was not only some evidence that the father knew of a course of conduct on Charles’ part to lend the Chevrolet, but also and perhaps more important, the undisputed fact that the father made arrangements to put title to the Chevrolet in Charles and himself jointly and thereafter left Charles in sole possession and control thereof. The father testified that his only reason for taking a joint interest in the car was to prevent Charles from selling it without his permission. From this arrangement and in view of all the circumstances there was room for the inference that, except for power to sell, the father was content that Charles should have all the rights of an owner including the right to lend. True, the father testified that once, when the car was purchased, he told Charles not to lend it. But his testimony as to this was in language so couched that the jury, if indeed it believed his testimony, especially in view of all the evidence as to subsequent events might have interpreted his language as intended as the advice of a somewhat cynical father rather than as a limitation of authority imposed by a co-owner. In any event, and quite apart from an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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