Curry v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.2d 534 · 1928
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Gaither v. Myers (1968), Rosenberg v. Murray (1940)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Potts v. . Pardee · Kay v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Doran v. Thomsen · Guthrie v. Holmes
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has come to be the general rule that, in an action for injuries resulting from being struck by an automobile, proof that the automobile was owned by the defendant at the time of the accident establishes a prima facie case for the plaintiff. In other words, proof of defendant’s ownership of an automobile that has been driven on the public highway warrants the inference that it was in his possession, either personally or through his servant, the driver, and that the driver was acting within the scope of his employment””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Gaskins
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.