Drewes v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1971
20 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 Sherwood v. American Ry. Express Co. · Adam v. English · Adams v. Bell Motors, Inc. · Maggio v. M. F. Bradford Motor Express, Inc. · Burrage v. Tri-State Transit Co. of Louisiana
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the actual damages resulting from loss of use of the car for the interval during which he [the owner] is considering the nature of the damage and ascertaining whether the vehicle can be restored to its former [condition”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the vehicle is damaged to such an extent that it cannot be repaired and is a total loss, no recovery can be had for loss of use”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law relating to the right of an owner of a damaged vehicle to recover damages for loss of is use is well settled. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucia v. De Lage
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.