Twichell v. Hetzel’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1984 · most notably Members Mutual Insurance Co. v. Hermann Hospital (1984), Burks v. Aldridge (1942)
30 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 Dunn v. Jones · Jacobsen v. Howard · Farmer v. Rutherford · Brandon v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. · Blanton ex rel. Blanton v. Kansas City Cotton Mills 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no certificate, permit, or license shall be issued by the state corporation commission to any ‘public motor carrier of property,’ ‘public motor carrier of passengers,’ ‘contract motor carrier of property or passengers,’ or ‘private motor carrier of property,’ until and after such applicant shall have filed with, and the same has been approved by the state corporation commission, a liability insurance policy, in such reasonable sum as the commission may deem necessary to adequately protect the interest of the public with due regard to the number of persons and amount of property involved, but in no event shall such sum be less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for loss to property of others in any one accident, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for personal injury or death to any one person in any one accident, and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for injury or death to two or more persons in any one accident, which liability insurance shall bind the obligors thereunder to pay compensation for injuries to persons and loss of or damage to property resulting from the negligent operation of such carrier.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No certificate or license shall be issued ... to any . . . ‘private motor earner of property,’ until and after such applicant shall have filed with, and the same has been approved by, the public service commission, a liability insurance policy in some insurance company or association authorized to transact business in this state, in such reasonable sum as the commission may deem necessary to adequately protect the interests of the public with due regard to the number of persons and amount of property involved, which liability insurance shall bind the obligors thereunder to pay compensation for injuries to persons and loss of or damage to property resulting from the negligent operation of such earner.” (G. S. 1935, 66-1,128.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . An action by a party to recover for injuries to his person or property caused by the negligent operation of a public motor carrier may be brought directly against both the negligent motor carrier and the statutory surety. Such an action is one in tort and its necessary allegations do not constitute a misjoinder of causes of action, nor are they out of harmony with the provisions of R. S. 60-601.” (Syl.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.