Moore v. Skiles’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Lasnetske v. Parres (1961), 32 Colo. App. 44 - Powell v. City of Ouray (1973)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Phillips v. Denver City Tramway Co. · Tannehill v. Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Railway Co. · American Insurance v. Naylor · Hutchins v. Haffner · Colorado & Southern Railway Co. v. Thomas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he owner or joint owner, riding as an occupant in his own car, using the car for a purpose in common with the driver is presumed to have a right to control the driver and a right to manage and direct the movements of the car.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Instances of the imputation of negligence by reason of the occupant’s control over the operation of the vehicle are by no means infrequent. Thus the negligence of one driving at the request or permission of the owner riding in the automobile is usually imputable to the owner, and actual control by the owner is not necessary if there is a right to control the operation of the automobile. As said by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, citing this section, the owner of an automobile has the right to control its operation, and when he is an occupant of the automobile when operated by another with his permission or at his request, nothing else appearing, the negligence of the driver is imputable to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Wilson“Where, as here, joint ownership of the car is shown; where joint occupancy and possession of the vehicle is admitted, and where the occupant-owners of the car use it upon a joint mission, the driver will be presumed to be driving for himself and as an agent for the other present joint owner.”
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.