169 Cal. App. 2d 558 - Clapp v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Martinez v. Southern Pacific Co. · 19 Cal. 2d 439 - Druzanich v. Criley · 23 Cal. 2d 237 - Kruzie v. Sanders · 49 Cal. 2d 359 - Gillespie v. Rawlings · 42 Cal. 2d 443 - Thompson v. Lacey
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether a rider is a guest or a passenger, if the evidence can give rise to but one reasonable conclusion, the question becomes one of law,”
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.