Denver Tramway Co. v. Orbach’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1986
7 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 Elyton Land Co. v. Mingea · Colorado & Southern Railway Co. v. Thomas · O'Rourke v. Lindell Railway Co. · McKernan v. Detroit Citizens' Street-Railway Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In C. & S. Ry. Co. v. Thomas, 33 Colo. 517 , 81 Pac. 801 , 70 L. R. A. 681, 3 Ann. Cas. 700, on which counsel rely, this court, in terms, confined the discussion to passengers in private vehicles, and pointed out that negligence was to be imputed to a passenger only in those exceptional cases in which ‘the injured person is in a position to exercise authority or control over the driver.” “The imputation of negligence in cases of a ‘joint enterprise’ has the same basis, it being properly assumed that the several parties to the enterprise will each have a voice in its management, and hence have the right to exercise control over a driver, when the parties are traveling in furtherance of the enterprise. Each is in effect the agent of the others in the line of their undertaking. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Ullom
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.