Marean v. Petersen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This court has also given recognition to the inference an occupant of a car operated by another is a guest, placing upon the one contending otherwise the burden of so proving. On the other hand, one who rides in an automobile ‘for the definite and tangible benefit of the owner or operator’ or ‘for the mutual, definite and tangible benefit of the owner or operator on one hand and of himself on the other’ is not a guest within the meaning of section 321.494, Code, 1962.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sieren v. Stoutner

2. “In any event identity of the driver, being the focal point of our present problem is otherwise established by the inference, sometimes referred to as a rebuttable presumption, that an owner-occupant of a vehicle involved in an accident was being operated by him where there is no direct testimony as to identity of the driver.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. Miller