Houston v. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1950
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 Ferris v. . Sterling · Birch v. Abercrombie · Norris v. . Kohler · Macdonald v. O'Reilly · Edgeworth v. Wood
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.
““Where plaintiff proves that the vehicle which caused the damage belonged to the defendant, the jury is entitled to infer that the driver was defendant’s servant and that the vehicle was being used for defendant’s purposes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The admission of ownership made by the defendants in the case at bar was therefore sufficient to make out a prima facie case on the controverted questions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Farra
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.