20 N.J. Super. 180 - Petrone v. Margolis’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Meistrich v. Casino Arena Attractions, Inc. (1959), 348 So. 2d 287 - Blackburn v. Dorta (1977)
27 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · McNair v. Berger · Milstrey v. City of Hackensack · Wise v. Stagg · White v. Ellison Realty Corp.
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.
““Hence the test was whether an ordinarily cautious and prudent person would, under the same or similar circumstances, have incurred the risk of riding with the defendant. Solomon v. Finer, 115 N.J.L. 404 , 180 A. 567 (Sup.Ct.1935) ; Goldstein v. Hotel Altman, 4 N.J.Super. 78 , 66 A.2d 356 (App.Div.1949). See, Restatement, Torts, sec. 466, comment (e) ; 4 Blashfield’s Cyc. Auto Law and Prac. 602, sec. 2453; 5 Am.Jur. 774, sec. 483. “Whether or not such a person knows or in the exercise of reasonable vigilance should have known that the driver lacked the capacity safely to operate the vehicle is a question of fact. So also the causal relationship in a proximate contributory sense of the danger voluntarily assumed to the production of the injuries sustained is normally a question of fact, and where fair-minded men might honestly differ in the appraisement of the accompanying circumstances, knowledge, and conduct of the passenger, the question is one for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.