Gilbert v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1980
4 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 Callas v. Independent Taxi Owners' Ass'n · Vandervort v. Wilson · Norris v. . Kohler · Middletown Trust Co. v. Bregman · Webb v. Dixie-Ohio Express Co., Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In no case involving either a pleasure, or a business, or commercial, motor vehicle has this court ever held that the car driver’s negligence can be imputed to the defendant merely upon proof of his ownership of the car and his consent to its use, and without any evidence of a relationship between him and the driver, or with the auto’s use, that would justify regarding the two as principal and agent. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Olson““ * * * there can be no doubt as to the absence of any such presumption or inference in this State, where such fact is not shown, and there is no evidence of any relationship between the owner and the driver of the vehicle. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Olson
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.