Menkes v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
March 1967
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Meadows · Gill v. Hayes · 240 Mo. App. 1123 - Wolf v. Holton · Woolf v. Holton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Viewing the testimony in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, and indulging all reasonable inferences flowing therefrom in his behalf, we are unable to bring ourselves to the belief it establishes the car was driven in heedless and reckless disregard of the rights of the plaintiff so as to entitle him to a recovery under our guest statute. The testimony would support a finding of negligence, but that is not sufficient here.” 260 P.2d at pages 369, 370.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. Horton
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.