Trolio v. McLendon’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1993
12 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 Maryland Casualty Co. v. Howe · 71 N.J. Super. 538 - LeFelt v. Nasarow · 14 Utah 2d 89 - National Farmers Union Property & Casualty Co. v. Farmers Insurance Group · Hammer v. Malkerson Motors, Inc. · Motorists Mutual Ins. v. Lumbermens Mutual Ins.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An automobile in the custody of a repairman who drives it for the purpose of testing the repairs which have been made to it is not thereby 'used in the automobile business' within the meaning of that phrase as contained in the liability insurance policy covering the vehicle, which policy defines 'automobile business' as the 'business of selling, repairing, servicing storing or parking of automobiles' but does not define the meaning of the phrase, 'used in." Syllabus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The word “used,” or the phrase “used in,” may be reasonably construed as meaning either to have employed the vehicle for one’s own use or service, or to have used it in a general sense. See Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. McLendon’s use of the vehicle was no more a utilization to the automobile business in which he was obviously engaged, than a use merely incidental to the repairs.”
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.