Brown v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1973
13 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 Judson v. Bee Hive Auto Service Co. · 116 Cal. App. 348 - Owens v. Carmichael's U-Drive Autos, Inc. · Graham v. American Employers' Ins. Co. of Boston · Kantola v. Lovell Auto Co. · Hamp v. Universal Auto 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * ordinarily, it is a question for the jury to determine whether the evidence refutes or overcomes the inference of agency which arises by reason of the ownership of the automobile." (Class 5, supra.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the only reasonable deduction to be made from the evidence is that the automobile was not being driven in furtherance of the interests of the owner * * *.”
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.