Reilly v. . Connable’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Potts v. . Pardee (1917), Van Blaricom v. . Dodgson (1917)
3 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Chattooga County v. Megginson · Sweeden v. Atkinson Improvement Co. · Engel v. . Eureka Club · Slater v. Advance Thresher Co. · Danforth v. Fisher
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The permission of defendant to the chauffeur to use the automobile for purposes personal to the chauffeur, and in which the defendant had no interest, did not make him liable to the plaintiff.””
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.