19 Cal. 2d 428 - Whitechat v. Guyette’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably Martinez v. Southern Pacific Co. (1955), 23 Cal. 2d 237 - Kruzie v. Sanders (1943)
3 federal appellate · 66 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 110 Cal. App. 81 - Crawford v. Foster · Chaplowe v. Powsner · 101 Cal. App. 274 - Rath v. Bankston · 102 Cal. App. 221 - Brandes v. Rucker-Fuller Desk Co. · 120 Cal. App. 561 - Silvey v. Harm
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand ... where the relationship between the parties is one of business and the transportation is supplied in the pursuit thereof for their mutual benefit, compensation has been given and the plaintiff is a passenger and not a guest.”
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.