Hiscox v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 160 · 1942
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Gaither v. Myers (1968), Myers v. Gaither (1967)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 Rosenberg v. Murray · Walsh v. Rosenberg
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any motor vehicle, after the passage of this chapter, shall he operated upon the public highways of the District of Columbia by any person other than the owner, with the consent of the owner, express or implied, the operator thereof shall in case of accident, be deemed to he the agent of the owner of such motor vehicle, and the proof of the owership of said motor vehicle shall he prima facie evidence that such person operated said motor vehicle with the consent of the owner.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions 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.