Devitt v. Continental Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1958
5 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 Coleman v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. · Grant v. Knepper · Arcara v. Moresse · Gerka v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · Brustein v. New Amsterdam Casualty 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘operate’ is used throughout the statute as signifying a personal act in working the mechanism of .the car. The driver operates the car for the owner, but the owner does not operate the car unless he drives it himself. * * * Obviously the word is used in the policy in the same sense in which it is used in the Highway Law.””
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.