Yokom v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Florida East Coast Railway Company, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. United States of America, Third Party Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellees v. Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, and Troup Bros., Inc., Third Party (1975), 90 So. 2d 623 - Roberts v. Braynon (1956)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Bushnell v. Bushnell · O'Brien v. Woldson · Paperry v. Ryback · McDougald v. Couey · Harber v. Graham
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“drove a female passenger to another city. The woman offered to pay for gasoline and expenses. While the driver apparently had no business or specific goal in the other city, we are not convinced that that was dispositive. The supreme court quoted with approval the following statement from the 1936 edition of 5 American Jurisprudence Automobiles section 501 at page 787: It is not sufficient that the passenger indicates the route or that both parties have certain plans in common, such as a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) There must be an agreement, express or implied, to enter into an undertaking. (2) In such undertaking there must be community of interests in the objects and purposes to be accomplished. (3) The parties to such an enterprise must, in pursuance of it, have equal authority.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““He did not receive any money which could be considered as a profit to him for transporting the appellant to her destination. She agreed to pay only the expenses attendant upon the operation of appellee’s automobile. Even in this modern age of equality between the sexes chivalry is not dead and surely courtesy is not merely a relic of by-gone days. The transportation of the appellant by the appellee was simply an act of graciousness. Under such circumstances the appellant was not a paying passenger but was in the category of a guest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pooton v. Berutich
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.