Bennett v. Arctic Insulation, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 652 · 1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1991
1 federal appellate · 9 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 43 Cal. 2d 60 - Richards v. Stanley · Ross v. Hartman · Schaff v. R. W. Claxton, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well recognized that where the owner of a motor vehicle entrusts it to another for the latter’s own use, there is no liability upon the owner for the injuries inflicted by the borrower of the vehicle while he is using it, in the absence of proof that the borrower was known to be incompetent. When a friend borrows a car, the owner knows it will certainly be driven. When the owner leaves the key in the car, he does not know that. All that can be said is that he should anticipate that a thief might take it and drive it. . . . (Emphasis in the original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.