Galbraith v. Levin’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 2 Ill. 2d 74 - Ney v. Yellow Cab Co. (1954), 43 Cal. 2d 60 - Richards v. Stanley (1954)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Rummel v. Peters · McKenna v. Andreassi · Santa Maria v. Trotto · Slater v. T. C. Baker Co. · Sullivan v. Griffin
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff’s contentions go far toward making the defendant an insurer as to the consequences of every accident in which his automobile might become involved while operated by the original thieves or their successors in possession. This is a course upon which, even if it were open, we decline to embark.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * the conduct of the thief was an intervening cause which the defendants were not bound to anticipate and guard against.”
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.