Riley v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Naudzius v. Lahr · Gibbard v. Cursan · Montgomery v. Lansing City Electric Railway Co. · Cooper v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. · Richter v. Harper
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘gross negligence’ as used in a majority of the cases where the term has been defined in this State has no application to the term as ordinarily used under the guest statute where it is used as synonymous with wilful and wanton misconduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Wardell
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.