Anthony v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2004
15 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 New Orleans Co v. Jopes · Parker v. Wilson · Rush v. McDonnell · Jones v. Harris · Coker v. Moose
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f an accident occurs in which the driver is not negligent, there is no causal connec tion between the owner's precedent negligence and the injury itself.... [IJt is the combined negligence of the owner and operator which fastens liability upon the owner. Otherwise, the plaintiffs recovery would rest on no stronger basis than the "but for" doctrine. [[Image here]] Strictly speaking, the liability is not derivative,-it is dependent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Turner“dependent liability of the owner cannot be imposed in the face of exoneration of the defendant whose negligent acts are claimed to have been the immediate cause of plaintiff's injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Turner
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.