Deck v. Sherlock’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions

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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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he law requires that an owner use care in allowing others to assume control over and operate his automobile, and holds him hable if he entrusts it to, and permits it to be operated by, a person whom he knows or should know to be an inexperienced, incompetent, or reckless driver, to be intoxicated or addicted to intoxication, or otherwise incapable of properly operating an automobile without endangering others.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gibb v. Strickland · Arant v. G. H., Inc.

2. “We point out that if Sherlock was negligent in permitting Duffy to use his car because of the latter's intoxication, or the likelihood that he would become intoxicated, Sherlock is liable for every act of Duffy which contributed to the accident, including the act of Duffy in permitting Hull to drive while he was drunk. [Citations omitted.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gibb v. Strickland · Henderson v. Professional Coatings Corp.

3. “A jury might well find that Sherlock was negligent in entrusting his car to Duffy or Hull, or both, in the light of the knowledge he had acquired throughout the afternoon and evening, even though he did not think Hull or Duffy were intoxicated when he permitted them to take the car.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gibb v. Strickland