Ferebee v. Hungate’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bates v. Devers (1974), Davis v. Marshall Homes, Inc. (2003)
8 federal appellate · 21 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 Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance v. Heller · Ward v. Charlton · Pickeral v. Federal Land Bank · Pittston Co. v. O'HARA · Owen v. Dixon
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We held that, since there had been a judicial determination in the action involving Ward’s cross-claim against Harper, Ward was not entitled to recover against Harper, the operator of the car, therefore Ward could not recover against Charlton, the owner of the car, because the liability of the owner was necessarily predicated upon the negligence of the operator-agent of the owner. There were an identity of parties and issues and each of the parties had had their day in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sarno v. Johns Bros.“[t]he doctrine of estoppel by inconsistent position [i.e., judicial estoppel] does not apply to a prior proceeding in which the parties are not the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have been prejudiced ... had the decision been the other way”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hately v. Watts
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.