Head v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably Panopulos v. Maderis (1956), Edgarton v. H. P. Welch Co. (1947)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 · Sullivan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Whiteacre v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Webster v. Fitchburg Railroad · Ruel v. Langelier
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The degree of the defendant's duty depends upon whether the act of the defendant claimed to be negligent was an act performed in the course of carrying out the gratuitous undertaking which the defendant had assumed."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We think that the defendant in the case at bar had assumed the gratuitous undertaking of transporting the plaintiff to her home, and that her act in starting the automobile was part of this undertaking."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.