Arkin v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably White v. Seitz (1930), Myers v. Shipley (1922)
12 federal appellate · 70 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Birch v. Abercrombie · Van Blaricom v. . Dodgson · Hays v. Hogan · Parker v. Wilson · Daily v. Maxwell
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A parent is not liable for the tort of his minor child merely from the relationship. There is no evidence or claim that George J. Page was not a competent chauffeur. An automobile is not so dangerous an agency as to make the owner liable for injuries caused by it to travelers on the highway, regardless of the agency of the driver. (Citing authorities). The owner of an automobile who merely permits another to use it for his own purposes is not liable for the negligence of the borrower in the use of the machine. (Citing authorities). The owner of an automobile is not liable for an injury occasioned by the negligent use of the machine by his servant if the servant was at the itme at liberty from the service of his master and not engaged in doing his master’s business but was pursuing his own interests exclusively. (Citing authorities.) ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.