Call v. Huffman’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2018
12 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 Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · 2 Ill. 2d 74 - Ney v. Yellow Cab Co. · Ross v. Hartman · 333 Ill. App. 359 - Ostergard v. Frisch · 76 So. 2d 46 - Cone v. Smith
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person driving or in charge of any motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the motor, locking the ignition, removing the key, and effectively setting the brake thereon, and, when standing upon any grade, turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“provision of the Highway Regulatory Act did not manifest a legislative intent to create a cause of action where one did not exist previously, and the court specifically rejected a contention that the rationale of Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co., supra, supported the plaintiff's position. The court then affirmed a judgment which had maintained an exception of no cause of action. An application was made to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari or review in the Call case. The application was denied with the following notation:”
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.