imputed negligence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 290 U.S. 227 - Miller v. Union Pacific R. · 1933Most cited · 260 citing opinions
Whether a passenger or guest in a public or private conveyance, having no control over its movement, may be denied a right of recovery for personal injury or death on the ground of contributory negligence, depends upon his own failure to exercise a proper degree of care, and not upon that of the driver.
How often courts cite the case defining “imputed negligence”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “imputed negligence” — 260 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.