Jacobsen v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1976 · most notably Boutang v. Twin City Motor Bus Co. (1956), Weber v. Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. (1966)
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Christensen v. Hennepin Transportation Co. Inc. · Kleidon v. Glascock · Holmes v. Lilygren Motor Co. Inc. · Kane v. Locke · Zowin v. Peoples Brewing 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Not only would it not be illogical to allow the bailors to recover from each other’s bailee, which would be the situation at common law anyway, but the policy of the statute would thus be well illustrated in giving the bailors a recovery against each other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stuart v. Pilgrim““ ‘if both drivers were negligent, and the negligence of each was a proximate cause of the resulting collision and damage, then each father will recover his damages from the other.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pearson v. Erb
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.