Smith v. Babcock’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 84 Cal. App. 3d 771 - Deyo v. Kilbourne (1978), Bahm v. Dormanen (1975)
2 district · 28 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 State, Use of Shipley v. Walker · Jackson v. William Dingwall Company · Garrison v. Trowbridge · Lake v. Emigh · Clawson v. Schroeder
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law requires that the owner of a motor vehicle use care in allowing others to assume control- over and operate the vehicle, and thus an owner who intrusts his vehicle to another has the duty to put it in charge of a reasonably prudent and competent driver, and to exercise reasonable care in selecting a driver and in ascertaining his competency to drive and the existence of habits which would make it unsafe to place so dangerous an agency in his hands ____ The general rule applies to the intrustment of a motor vehicle to a minor who is an incompetent or reckless driver.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in completing the form. The spirit of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure requires broad disclosure of knowledge of the case on the part of all parties, Smith v. Babcock (1971), 157 Mont. 81 , 482 P.2d 1014 , and the result is the same whether the plaintiff was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thibaudeau v. Uglum
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.