Kaley v. Huntley’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Wright v. Osborn (1947), Knox v. Weathers (1953)
5 federal appellate · 76 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 Hogan v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Hennessy v. Automobile Owners' Ins. · 215 Mo. App. 129 - Smith v. Ozark Water Mills Co. · Smith v. Wells · Sullivan v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is manifest that the statute itself does not prescribe any different degree of care on the part of the operator for different occasions and places or under different circumstances. It is made the duty of every person operating a motor vehicle to exercise the highest degree of care. Where? Everywhere on the highways. When? At all times, because no exceptions are authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burlingame v. Landis“When dangers, which are either reasonably manifest or known to an invited guest, confront the driver of a vehicle, and the guest has an adequate and proper opportunity to control or influence the situation for safety, if he sits by without warning or protest and permits himself to be driven carelessly to his injury, this is negligence which will bar recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ezell v. Kansas City
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.