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78 F.2d 506 · 1935

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
March 1990
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably Rosenberg v. Murray (1940), Harlem Taxicab Ass'n v. Nemesh (1951)

15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions

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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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Hess v. Pawloski · Railroad Company v. Stout · Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald · Best v. District of Columbia

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is difficult to conceive of a case, where the owner of an automobile, used privately, for business purposes, or publicly as a taxicab, could be held liable for an accident caused by the car while operated by a person unknown to the owner and without his express or implied permission. Clear it is, that the agent of the owner, in whatever capacity he is charged with the use or operation of the car, cannot without the knowledge or consent of the owner transmit his agency to a person unknown to the owner, and thereby impose liability on the owner for the reckless or negligent operation of the car.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Thompson v. Amalgamated Cas. Ins.
  2. “could the owner of the car be held liable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Thompson v. Amalgamated Cas. Ins.

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.