Hider v. Gelbach’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 693 · 1943
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1975
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Alford v. United States · Ford v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. · Funderburk v. Powell · Bell v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Callison v. Charleston & W. C. Ry. 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that in order to charge a passenger with the contributory negligence of the driver of the coveyance, the passenger must have assumed toward the driver the relation of master or superior. * * * 35 "A passenger cannot be said to be in possession or control of the vehicle in which he may be riding within this rule, merely because he gives directions or suggestions as to the route or place of destination. * * * 36 "The cases on the question of joint enterprise are numerous. They are almost wholly concerned with whether, admitting that the driver of an automobile and a person riding with him have a common purpose in making the trip, further conditions exist from which it can be said to appear that the negligence of the driver should be imputed to the passenger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClure v. Price“The general rule is that in order to charge a passenger with the contributory negligence of the driver of the coveyance, the passenger must have assumed toward the driver the relation of master or superior. * * * 35”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClure v. Price
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.