Dunn v. Caylor’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1994
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Hubert v. Harpe · Dodd & Co. v. Bond · McCollum v. McCollum · Furlow v. Sanders · Steadham v. Cobb
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every case concerning the application of the family purpose doctrine must stand upon its own facts as to what the parent has voluntarily assumed as a part of the business to which he will devote himself and to which he will have his vehicle applied. The extent to which an automobile may be used for the comfort and pleasure of the family is a question to be settled by the parent and it is also a matter for the parent’s determination as to whether a son home from military service would be included among those whose comfort and pleasure would be promoted by the use of the vehicle. A parent is not relieved from liability merely because a child is an adult or self-sustaining.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““... that the controlling test is not whether the child is adult or minor or self-supporting or dependent but rather whether the child ‘was using the car for a purpose for which the parent provided it with the permission of the parent either express or implied.’ ” 127 S.E.2d at 369 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Stogsdill“`A child, whether minor or adult, may occupy the position of a servant or agent of his parent, and for his (or her) acts as such the parent may be liable under the general principles governing the relation of master and servant or of principal and agent.'”
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.