Casey v. Fortune’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably 57 Cal. 2d 43 - Peterson v. Grieger, Inc. (1961), 242 Cal. App. 2d 774 - Glens Falls Ins. Co. v. Consolidated Freightways (1966)
44 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 11 Cal. 2d 64 - Engstrom v. Auburn Automobile Sales Corp. · 26 Cal. 2d 320 - Burgess v. Cahill · Krum v. Malloy · 73 Cal. App. 2d 271 - Flemmer v. Monckton · Boland v. Gosser
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to make him liable for the negligence of any person to whom he had expressly or impliedly given permission to operate his car, and thereby prevent him from escaping liability by saying that his car was being used without express authority or not in his business. [Citations.]”
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.