Ackerman v. Steiner’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1956
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““The weight of authority is that the sharing of the cost, of gasoline and oil consumed on a trip, when the trip is taken for pleasure or social purposes, does not transform into a passenger one who without such exchange would be a guest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Huguenot v. Scaff
How this case has been treated — in progress
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