Neale v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 165 Ill. 2d 181 - Zedella v. Gibson (1995), Forbes v. Harleysville Mutual Insurance (1991)
45 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Jennings v. Government Employees Insurance · McCart v. Muir · National Grange Mutual Insurance v. Pinkney · Krum v. Malloy · Rounds, Admr. v. Phillips
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order for [the wife] to have “supplied” the car to [her husband] at the time of the accident, and thus be liable under a negligent entrustment theory, she had to have the power to permit or prohibit [him] from using the vehicle. That power could emanate from a superior right to control the operation of the car or from a special relationship between the “entrustor” and the driver, such as a parent-child relationship. [The wife] in this case did not have the power to permit or prohibit [her husband’s] use of the [car] because, as co-owner, she did not have superior rights to it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the insurer of the family car were still liable under the policy if the excluded driver operates the vehicle, on a theory of negligent entrustment by the non-excluded insured spouse, the purpose of the named driver exclusion provision would be defeated. Insurers would be indirectly liable for the injuries caused by the negligent driving of the excluded drivers despite the legislative intent to the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order for [defendant] to ... be liable under a negligent entrustment theory, [defendant] had to have the power to permit or prohibit [entrustee] from using the vehicle. That power could emanate from a superior right to control the operation of the car, or from a special relationship between the "entrustor" and the driver, such as a parent-child relationship.”
2 later decisions 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.