Schoonover v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1965 · most notably Mid-Continent Casualty Co. v. Everett (1965), Shively v. Burr (1943)
4 federal appellate · 20 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 · Burks v. Aldridge · Smith v. Republic Underwriters · Fisher v. Central Surety & Insurance · Twichell v. Hetzel
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.
““. . . the controlling question relates to the trial court’s ruling that at the time and in the circumstances of the collision the defendant’s truck was being incidentally used in his business as a licensed private carrier. If so, the insurance carrier was properly joined as a codefendant in the action . . . On the other hand, if the principal defendant was not engaged directly or incidentally in the pursuit of his business as a licensed carrier, then under the terms of the policy issued by the defendant casualty company its liability was merely one of an indemnitor, and it could only be subjected to a judgment, if at all, when a judgment had been obtained against the principal defendant . . .” (p. 837.)”
2 later decisions 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.