Smith v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1967
14 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 71 Cal. App. 239 - People v. Ekstromer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘intoxication,’ as used in our guest statute * * * has been held * * * to have a meaning similar to ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ as that term is defined in People v. Ekstromer, 71 Cal.App. 239 , 235 P. 69, 71 . A person may therefore be said to be intoxicated or in a state of intoxication within the meaning of the guest statute, if intoxicating liquor has so far affected his nervous system, brain, or muscles ‘as to impair, to an appreciable degree, his ability to operate his car in the manner that an ordinary prudent and cautious man, in the full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care, would operate or drive a similar vehicle under like conditions.’ ””
3 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.