Hays v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1935 · most notably Van Blaricom v. . Dodgson (1917), Hays v. Hogan (1917)
27 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Browning v. Wabash Western Railway Co. · Lohmeyer v. St. Louis Cordage Co. · Parker v. Wilson · Daily v. Maxwell · Stowe v. Morris
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the plaintiff has suffered injury from the negligent management of a vehicle such as a boat, car, or carriage, it is sufficient prima facie evidence that the negligence was imputable to the defendant, to show that he was the owner of the thing .without proving affirmatively that the person in charge was the defendant’s servant. It lies with the defendant to show that the person in charge was not his servant, leaving him to show, if he can, that the property was not under his control at the time, and that the accident was occasioned by the fault of a stranger, an independent contractor, or other person for whose negligence the owner would not be answerable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boling v. Asbridge
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.