Fratus v. Amerco’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2018
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 State v. Baldwin · State v. Caprio · Defenders of Animals, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Management · Hardy v. Betz · State v. Huginski
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether Rhode Island law imposes joint and several liability on any owner of a rental vehicle not registered or rented in, but negligently operated by the bailee thereof, on the public highways of the State of Rhode Island?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any owner of a for hire motor vehicle or truck who has given proof of financial responsibility under this chapter or who in violation of this chapter has failed to give proof of financial responsibility, shall be jointly and severally liable with any person operating the vehicle for any damages caused by the negligence of any person operating the vehicle by or with the permission of the owner.” Section 31-34-4.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopes v. Phillips“We do not believe that § 31-34-4 can be applied extraterritorially to a Massachusetts bailment.”
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.