205 Pa. Super. 185 - Helwig v. ESTERLY’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1997
19 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 Dickinson v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Laroche v. Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance · Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance · Beatty v. Hoff · INDEMNITY INS. CO., ETC. v. Metropolitan Cas. Ins. Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be unreasonable to hold that [the son] was privileged to disregard the explicit instruction of his father as to the manner in which he was to use his father’s car. This is consistent with what was said [in an earlier case] “... the word ‘permission’ is to be construed as meaning permission to use the car, or permission to use the car in a specified manner and for a specified purpose.” If the restriction were imposed in this case the action of [the son] in using the automobile with [the fiancee] as the driver would be a major, not a slight, deviation from the privilege granted to him, whether it be considered as a breach of the condition imposed upon his privilege of use, thereby terminating that privilege, or as a use not intended, i.e., the use of the car to give [the son’s fiancee] an opportunity to practice driving or to receive instruction. Either would be beyond the privilege granted to him. Therefore, [the fiancee] would have been operating the ear without the permission of the named insured and would not be covered by the policy. She would have no express privilege granted to her by the named insured or implied by his conduct and she could not acquire an implied permission through [the son] since his privilege of use ended with his turning over the wheel of the car to her contrary to the express instruction given by his father.”
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.