Harrison v. Tomes’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2017
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Peters v. Employers Mutual Casualty Co. · 2 Kan. App. 2d 580 - United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Hokanson · Brugioni v. Maryland Casualty Company · 62 Ill. App. 3d 1 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Larsen · 60 Or. App. 666 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. White
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a narrow sense, the term may be limited to the primary driver and exclude a passenger who interferes with the driver's appropriate control and management of a vehicle by grabbing the steering wheel. But the term may also be interpreted more broadly to include any volitional act of control that [a]ffects the movement of a vehicle, such as when a passenger intentionally grabs the steering wheel without the driver's consent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because there may be degrees of control over a vehicle's movement, ambiguity creeps into the term `operated by'....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.