Grover v. Sharp & Fellows Contracting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably 39 Cal. 2d 622 - Flores v. Brown (1952), 147 Cal. App. 2d 742 - Ray v. Hanisch (1957)
40 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 20 Cal. 2d 457 - Blank v. Coffin · 23 Cal. 2d 110 - Dempsey v. Market Street Railway Co. · Souza v. Corti · 41 Cal. App. 739 - Randolph v. Hunt · Milgate v. Wraith
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Second, it is generally held that where the owner of a motor vehicle permits another to drive it, and the owner is a passenger in the car being so operated, an inference arises that the driver is operating the vehicle for the benefit of the owner and as his agent. (Souza v. Corti, 22 Cal.2d 454 [ 139 P.2d 645 , 147 A.L.R. 861 ]; Randolph v. Hunt, 41 Cal.App. 739 [ 183 P. 358 ]; Bosse v. Marye, 80 Cal.App. 109 [ 250 P. 693 ]; Maberto v. Wolfe, 106 Cal.App. 202 [ 289 P. 218 ].)””
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.