Severin v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1990
2 federal appellate · 12 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 McClure v. Latta · Lasich v. Wimpenney · Wade Ex Rel. Wade v. Reimer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person transported by the * * * operator of a motor vehicle as his guest without payment for such transportation shall have a cause of action for damages against such * * * operator for injury * * * in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been caused by the gross negligence * * * of the * * * operator * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Riner
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.