Morgan v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1967
21 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 110 Cal. App. 81 - Crawford v. Foster · Shiels v. Audette · Kastel v. Stieber · West v. Poor · Balian v. Ogassin
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a young child, who has been left by the parent or guardian in the unrestricted care and custody of another person, is taken on an automobile trip by such person and is injured in an accident while on the trip, the child is to be considered a ‘guest’ within the meaning of the . . . Kansas statutes which limit the liability of automobile owners or operators in the case of injuries to passengers who are riding as ‘guests without payment for transportation.’ ””
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.