Jones v. Halun’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 597 · 1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2007
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Hudson v. Lazarus · Rosenberg v. Murray · Hiscox v. Jackson · Conrad v. Porter
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wherever any motor vehicle, after the passage of this chapter, shall be operated upon the public highways of the District of Columbia by any person other than the owner, with the consent of the owner, express or implied, the operator thereof shall, in case of accident, be deemed to be the,agent of the owner of such motor vehicle, and the proof of the ownership of said motor vehicle shall be prima facie evidence that such person operated said motor vehicle with the consent of the owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when substantial evidence of nonconsent is introduced, the presumption ceases to operate. Mere ownership is then no longer sufficient proof of .consent, either as a matter of sense or as a matter of law. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute creates a rebuttable presumption that the driver of a car involved in an accident had the owner's consent to drive.”
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.