Jacobs v. Hobson’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1974 · most notably Donley v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. (1940), Montague v. Burgerhoff (1940)
26 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 Firmin v. Crawford · Brown v. Kansas Electric Utilities Co. · Root v. Cudahy Packing Co. · Moorhouse v. Robbins · Balandran ex rel. Balandran v. Compton
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . and any person who gives or furnishes a motor vehicle to such minor shall be jointly and severally liable with such minor for any damage caused by the negligence of such minor in driving such vehicle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shrout v. Rinker“"Technical errors which do not affirmatively appear to have prejudicially affected the substantial rights of parties are not grounds for reversal. (G. S. 1935, 60-3317.)” (Syl. If 2.)”
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.