32 Cal. App. 2d 326 - Stephen v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1965
17 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assuming the correctness of respondent’s claim that the driver . . . was the agent of her mother ... it requires no citation of authority for the statement that plaintiff’s right to recover was nevertheless based upon the measure of care owed her on the part of the principal ... If plaintiff was a guest . . . while riding in the latter’s automobile, then plaintiff’s right of recovery is gauged by the provisions of the ‘guest’ statute, regardless of whether Mrs. Spaulding was actually driving or exercising the control or the right to control her daughter, who was operating the car. ... It follows, therefore, that if plaintiff was a guest, then unless the driver was guilty of wilful misconduct or intoxication, the principal . . . whose liability was secondary, cannot be held.””
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.