Mumford v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2014
3 district · 13 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 Hallman v. Hallman · Elliott v. Camper · Fields v. Synthetic Ropes, Inc. · Dunn v. Stumbers · Ademski v. Ruth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"8 610.1. Injury to non-paying guest; exceptions as to passengers of public carriers and prospective purchasers of vehicles “(a) Xo person transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle, * * * as his guest without payment for such transportation shall have a cause of action for damages against such owner or operator for injury, death or loss, in case of accident, unless such accident was intentional on the part of such owner or operator, or was caused by his wilful or wanton disregard of the rights of others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only when the proposed contributor shares with the defendant a 'common liability' to the plaintiff. Absent such liability, no contribution may be enforced.”
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.