Rauch v. Stecklein’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No person 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 loss, in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been intentional on the part of said owner or operator or caused by his gross negligence or intoxication or his reckless disregard of the rights of others.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Keefer v. Givens · Younger v. Gallagher

2. ““ * * * gross negligence is conduct which indicates an indifference to the probable consequences of the act. A motor-host who drives in a manner which indicates that he has no concern for consequences and an indifference to the rights of others is said to be guilty of gross negligence.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Monner v. Starker · Younger v. Gallagher

3. ““It is unnecessary that the warning of disaster should be express. If the circumstances are such that the motorist, in the exercise of slight diligence should have observed the impending danger (Adair v. New-kirk, supra), he becomes charged with knowledge of all that the circumstances impart ’ . Rauch v. Stecklein, supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hartley v. Berg