Koops v. Gregg’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Hinds v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1959), Matthiessen v. Vanech (2003)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 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 Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Western v. Henderson · Ferris v. . Sterling · Birch v. Abercrombie · O'Dea v. Amodeo
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he presumption ceases to be operative when the trier finds proven facts which fairly put in issue the question, and the burden of proving that the car . . ., was operated by an agent of the owner . . ., then rests upon the plaintiff, if no evidence relevant to the issue is produced, or, if countervailing evidence is produced but the trier does not believe it, the presumption applies, and the plaintiff is entitled to have the issue found in his favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law does not, in determining agency, take account of indefinite considerations and possible motives of such a nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“further than merely establishing a presumption in that [it] definitely place[s] the burden of rebutting it upon the defendant. But that burden is restricted to rebutting the presumption; it does not shift to the defendant the burden CT Page 427 of proving that . . . the operator was not the agent of the owner. . . . The presumption ceases to be operative when the trier finds proven facts which fairly put in issue the question, and the burden of proving that the car was . . . operated by an agent of the owner . . . then rests up on the plaintiff; if no evidence relevant to the issue is produced, or, if countervailing evidence is produced but the trier does not believe it, the presumption applies, and the plaintiff is entitled to have the issue found in his favor.”
1 later decision 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.