Murrell v. Janders’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1962
16 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 Stout v. Gallemore · Aduddell ex rel. Aduddell v. Brighton · Sayre v. Malcom · Pool ex rel. Pool v. Day · Ewing v. Edwards
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.
“"That no person who is transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle, as his guest, without payment for such transportation, shall have a cause of action for damages against such owner or operator for injury, death or damage, unless such injury, death or damage shall have resulted from the gross and wanton negligence of the operator of such motor vehicle.” (R. S. 1933 Supp. 8-122b.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohee v. Hutson““. . . This charges nothing more than lack of .due care, which is negligence.” (p. 908.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elliott v. Peters
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.