Chaney v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Snowhite v. State, Use of Tennant (1966), Ozan Lumber Company v. McNeely (1949)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 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 Mitchell v. Churches · Tyree v. Tudor · Smith v. Nealey · Layes v. Harris
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Aside from the relation of master and servant, the owner of an automobile may be rendered liable for injuries inflicted by its operation by one whom he has permitted to drive the same on the ground that such person, by reason of his want of age or experience, or his physical or mental condition, or his known habit of recklessness, is incompetent to safely operate the machine ... if the person permitted to operate the car is known to be incompetent and incapable of properly running it . . . the owner will be held accountable for the damage done because his negligence in entrusting the car to an incompetent person is deemed to be the proximate cause of the damage. In such a case of mere permissive use, the liability of the owner would rest, not alone upon the fact of ownership, but upon the combined negligence of the owner in entrusting the machine to an incompetent driver, and of the driver in its operation.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is no dispute about the law that if anyone permits another to drive his car, knowing such one to be a reckless or careless driver, or knowing that he is in the habit of becoming intoxicated and driving a car in this condition, he will be liable for any injury caused by the negligence of such driver.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We have, examined carefully the instructions given and refused, and find that there was no error 'in -the court’s giving or refusing to give instructions.””
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.