Leonard v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 48 · 1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2008
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Boggs v. Plybon · Phelps v. Benson · Smith v. Tatum · Mayer v. Puryear
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia give effect to the purposes of the statute by a liberal interpretation of the phrase “guest without payment”, but we find nothing in them which would justify the holding in the pending case that the plaintiff-owner of the car lost his character of host and became the guest of his companion when he permitted her to drive the car for her own pleasure. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“person transported by the owner ... as a guest without payment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Duane
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.