Myers v. Gaither’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably First National Bank in Fort Collins v. Rostek (1973), Gaither v. Myers (1968)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 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 Richards v. United States · Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · Babcock v. Jackson · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Harris v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The high incidence of auto thefts in the District of Columbia, the constant warnings to the public to remove keys to prevent such thefts, the frequency of high speed chases involving stolen motor vehicles, all persuade us that the District has an overriding interest in preventing such occurrences and in encouraging owners to exercise greater caution in parking their automobiles. The only contacts this ease discloses which are purely Maryland are the domicile of the appellant and the location of the accident — referred to in the Kilberg case [Kilberg v. Northeast Airlines, Inc., 9 N.Y.2d 34 , 211 N.Y.S.2d 133 , 172 N.E.2d 526 (1961)] as merely “fortuitous”; while the District’s contacts are domicile of the appel-lee, the situs of the original or primary negligence, the chosen forum, and the overriding public interest in proscribing the conduct here alleged — which contacts are indeed superior to those of any other jurisdiction. We hold that the District of Columbia law on questions of negligence and proximate cause should be applied in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cause of a resulting accident. But, said the court, where there was a violation (as there) of an ordinance designed to promote safety, a more affirmative approach was required (at 15, 16). The evident purpose of requiring motor vehicles to be locked is not to prevent theft for the sake of owners or the police, but to promote the safety of the public in the streets. * * * This negligence created the hazard and thereby brought about the harm which the ordinance was intended to prevent. It was therefore a legal or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“considers as important contacts, inter alia, the place of the injury, the place where the contact occurred, the domicile of the parties, and the place where the relationship between the parties, and the place where the relationship between the parties is centered. In determining the relative importance of the contacts, the forum will consider the issues, the character of the tort, and the relative purposes of the tort rules of the interested states.”
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.