Fone v. Elloian’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Bolio v. Scholting (1950), Edgarton v. H. P. Welch Co. (1947)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Massaletti v. Fitzroy · Washburn v. R. F. Owens Co. · McNicholas v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Glaser v. Schroeder · Washburn v. R. F. Owens Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Their earlier common interest, the transportation of the plaintiff to the pond, had ceased. In the contemplation of the parties such a common interest would not again arise until, at some time which was not fixed, the homeward transportation of the plaintiff should be undertaken by the defendant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. “We think that there was here evidence which, if believed, would warrant a finding that, at the time of the plaintiff’s injury, the guest relationship which earlier existed had terminated. . . .If, as might have been found, the plaintiff in this action after arriving at the pond had ceased to be a guest passenger and up to the time of his injury had not resumed that relationship, the obligation upon the defendant was to use reasonable care to avoid injury to the plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bragdon v. Dinsmore
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.