Edwards v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 37 Cal. 2d 356 - Malloy v. Fong (1951), 35 Cal. 2d 628 - Clement v. State Reclamation Board (1950)
74 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 22 Cal. 2d 111 - Peri v. L.A. Junction Ry. · Souza v. Corti · Bryant v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · Huebotter v. Follett · Marchetti v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "Agency is the relationship which results from the manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and consent by the other so to act ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“affirmative evidence adequate to show that ... either the plaintiff was actually exercising control over the manner of operation of the car or the relationship of plaintiff and her son was such as to give plaintiff a legally cognizable right to control or command the son in his operation of the machine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“at the least permitted the jury to find such a relation”
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.