Satterfield v. Satterfield’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Entergy Gulf States, Inc. v. Summers (2009), St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital v. Agbor (1997)
4 federal appellate · 81 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 Burt v. Lochausen · Bonney v. San Antonio Transit Company · Lorch v. Eglin · Gledhill v. Connecticut Co. · Parker v. Leavitt, Adm'r
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a statute creates a liability unknown to the common law, or deprives a person of a common law right, the statute will be strictly construed in the sense that it will not be extended beyond its plain meaning or applied to cases not clearly within its purview ...”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Section 1. No person transported over the public highways of this State by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle as his guest without payment for such transportation, shall have a cause of action for damages against such owner or operator for injuries, death or loss, in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been intentional on the part of said owner or operator, or caused by his heedlessness or his reckless disregard of the rights of others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hull v. Chapman“needed no invitation, express or implied, before he had the right to ride in his own vehicle”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coons v. Lawlor
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.