Perry v. Harrod’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1992
3 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 Rowan v. Allen · Bowman v. Puckett · Rogers v. Blake · Napier v. Mooneyham · Raub v. Rowe
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A guest ... is one who is invited to enjoy the hospitality of the driver of a motor vehicle, who accepts such hospitality and takes a ride either for his own pleasure or for business without making any return or conferring any benefit upon the driver of the motor vehicle other than the mere pleasure of his company.”
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.