Grant v. Knepper’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Psota v. Long Island R.R. Co. (1927), Souza v. Corti (1943)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Ferris v. . Sterling · Bourne v. Whitman · Fluegel v. Coudert · Althorf v. . Wolfe · Kayser v. Van Nest
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Only a narrow construction would permit us now to say that an owner placing a car in the care of members of his family to be used for their pleasure or for the family business would escape liability if wife or son or daughter should give over the wheel to the management of a friend.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lange v. Potter“if a competent substitute had been inattentive or remiss at a time when intervention by the servant would have been of no avail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not abandon the car or its use when he surrendered to another the guidance of the wheel.”
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.