Allen v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1964
23 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 5 Cal. 2d 480 - Lindemann v. San Joaquin Cotton Oil Co. · Norton v. Puter · 134 Cal. App. 622 - Turner v. Standard Oil Co. · Van Fleet v. Heyler · Tice v. Pacific Electric 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Wilful misconduct, within the meaning of this statute, may then be defined as intentionally doing something in . the operation of a motor véhicle which should, not be done or intentionally failing to do something that should be "done under circumstances disclosing knowledge, express or tó be implied, that an injury to a guest will he a probable result. ’”
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.