Elliott v. Camper’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Culver v. Bennett (1991), 109 Ind. App. 407 - Fuller v. Thrun (1941)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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 Island Express, Inc. v. Frederick · Russell v. Parlee · South Atlantic Steamship Co. v. Munkacsy · Matthews v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Szymanska v. Equitable Life Insurance
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * one who takes a ride in a car driven by another person, merely, for his own pleasure or on his own business and without making any return or conferring any benefit on the driver of the car.”
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.