Klatka v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1978 · most notably Born v. Estate of Matzner (1954), 199 F. Supp. 143 - Truitt v. Gaines (1961)
2 district · 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 Scotvold v. Scotvold · Hart v. Hogan · Maitland v. Town of Thompson · Miller v. Miller · Dobbs v. Sugioka
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . that the benefit conferred on the owner or operator of the car must be sufficiently real, tangible and substantial to serve as an inducing cause for the transportation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Menze v. Clark · Mears v. Kovacic“"Guest has no cause of action.No person transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle as his guest, without payment for such transportation, shall have a cause of action for damages against such owner or operator for injury, death or loss in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been intentional on the part of such owner or operator or caused by his intoxication, or by negligence consisting of a willful and wanton disregard of the rights of others."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mears v. Kovacic“* * * to take a person riding with another out of the guest class two requirements are necessary: (1) an actual or potential benefit in a material or business sense resulting or to result to the owner, and (2) that the transportation be motivated by the expectation of such benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mears v. Kovacic
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.