9 Cal. 2d 279 - McCann v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo (1973), Panopulos v. Maderis (1956)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 142 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Callet v. Alioto · 110 Cal. App. 81 - Crawford v. Foster · Kruy v. Smith · Lyttle v. Monto · Russell v. Parlee
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, following the precepts and rules of construction herein noted, the cases indicate, either by a direct holding or by recognition, that where the relationship between the parties is one of business and the transportation is supplied in the pursuit thereof for their mutual benefit, compensation has been given and the plaintiff is a passenger and not a guest.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he nature of compensation ... is as variable as the particular facts involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stickel v. Harris
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.