Oxenger v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1967
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Gibbard v. Cursan · Richter v. Harper · Denman v. Johnston · Knickerbocker v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co. · Fike v. Pere Marquette Railroad
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.
“It is obvious that the term 'gross negligence' as used in the guest statute was not limited to subsequent negligence, discovered negligence or peril, humanitarian doctrine, last clear chance doctrine, etc., for they would not be ordinarily involved in cases brought by a guest against the owner or a driver of the car in which he was riding. The very purpose of the guest act was to absolve an owner or driver from liability for negligence except where he is guilty of wanton and wilful misconduct or gross negligence. Upon examination of the meaning of the term 'gross negligence,' as judicially defined prior to the enactment of the guest act, and upon consideration of the very purpose for which this statute was enacted, and a careful reading of the statute and the correlation therein of the term with that of 'wanton and wilful misconduct,' we must conclude that the term 'gross negligence' means such a degree of recklessness as approaches wanton and wilful misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. Walters“gross negligence or wilful and wanton misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bobich v. Rogers
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.