Taylor v. Welle’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2009
4 district · 9 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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 such owner or operator, or caused by his intoxication, or by negligence consisting of a wilfull and wanton disregard to the rights of others. . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Menze v. Clark“no recovery for death except under the provisions of the Wrongful Death Statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steedle v. Sereff
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.