Hope v. Cavallo’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Gurliacci v. Mayer (1991), Warner v. Leslie-Elliott Constructors, Inc. (1984)
2 district · 59 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 Loewenberg v. Wallace · Animal Rescue League v. Assessors of Bourne · Consolidated Diesel Electric Corp. v. City of Stamford · State v. Stonybrook, Inc. · Hough v. City Fire Insurance
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts, in numerous instances, have had occasion to construe the word `owner' as related to motor vehicles. The word `owner' is found in numerous statutes and has no commonly approved usage or fixed meaning, but must be interpreted in context and according to the circumstances in which it is used. . . . The term `owner' is one of general application and includes one having an interest other than the full legal and beneficial title. . . . The word owner is one of flexible meaning, and it varies from an absolute proprietary interest to a mere possessory right. . . . It is not a technical term and, thus, is not confined to a person who has the absolute right in a chattel, but also applies to a person who has possession and control thereof. . . . The term is broad enough to cover a tenant for years, a tenant for life, and a remainderman. This court has held that one may be the `owner' of a motor vehicle within the meaning of a statute, though another has strict legal title. . . . In other cases we have held that the word owner includes both the legal and equitable owner and anyone having an interest in the automobile under a special title.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny person injured . . . through the negligence of any state official or employee when operating a motor vehicle owned and insured by the state . . . shall have a right of action against the state . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the motor vehicle law in effect at the time, which provided that no suit could be had for injuries to a car unless the owner registered it,”
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.