Sewell v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1984
16 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 Johnson v. Item Co. · Burthe v. Lee · Gibbons v. N. O. Terminal Co. · U-Drive-It-Car Co. v. Texas Pipe Line Co. · Murphy v. Star Checker Cab, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“James was the employee of Newton. The Cadillac Motor Car Company had loaned the LaSalle to Newton so that he might try it out to determine whether he desired to purchase it. At the time of the accident, it was being driven on an errand for Newton, and the Cadillac Motor Car Company had no control over James or over the car. It is now well settled that under such circumstances the negligence of the bailee or of the bailee's servant will not bar recovery by the owner for damage caused by the negligence of a third person, even if there is contributing negligence on the part of the driver of the bailed automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyer v. Rein“a suit brought against one of the debtors does not bar the creditor from bringing suits on the same account against the others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A suit brought against one of the debtors in solido interrupts prescription with regard to all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.