Malone v. Santora’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Griffin v. Nationwide Moving & Storage Co. (1982), Herbert S. Newman & Partners, P.C. v. CFC Construction Ltd. Partnership (1996)
12 district · 65 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 Hart v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Boston v. Piper · 144 Ohio St. 275 - Agricultural Ins. v. Constantine · O'Dea v. Amodeo · Sandler v. Commonwealth Station Co.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“revolting to the moral sense, and contrary alike to the salutary principles of law and a sound public policy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not go to the extent of relieving him of his own negligence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The lot was inclosed; the defendant's attendants were present to attend to cars brought in to be parked; the plaintiff paid the parking charge to the attendant who gave him his claim ticket; the plaintiff left the switch key in the car at the request of the attendant who then took the car and *Page 623 parked it; [and] no particular space for placing the car was either mentioned or contemplated.”
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.