Kinney v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2015
16 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 Mundy v. Pirie-Slaughter Motor Co. · Fuentes v. Tucker · Martinez v. Southern Pacific Co. · Howard v. Stoughton · 52 Wash. 2d 885 - Murray v. Mossman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order for the violation of a statute to be pertinent in a particular ease, the statute must be ... designed to protect (1) the class of persons in which the plaintiff is included (2) against the type of harm which has in fact occurred as a result of its violation.” Kinney v. Smith, 95 Idaho 328, 331 , 508 P.2d 1234, 1237 (1973); Anderson v. Blackfoot Livestock Commission Co., 85 Idaho 64 , 375 P.2d 704 (1962); Curoe v. Spokane Etc. R.R. Co., 32 Idaho 643 , 186 P. 1101 (1920); W. PROSSER, LAW OF TORTS § 36 (4th ed. 1971).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Among other things, the plaintiffs offered to prove that when the appellant furnished her car to the driver, she knew that his driver’s license had been suspended. If the appellant knowingly permitted her car to be driven by a person whose license had been suspended, then she acted in violation of I.C. § 49-339.”
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.