Akins Ex Rel. Akins v. Hamblin

How courts have described this case

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• passenger had no duty to request intoxicated driver to drive more carefully for protection of second passenger
• passenger had no duty to request intoxicated driver to drive more carefully for protection of second passenger
• “Without such a duty, a person cannot be at fault and therefore cannot ... [have] his negligence compared.”
• auto passenger owes no duty to other passengers and third persons unless passenger and driver were involved in a joint venture or had a special relationship which created some duty to allow driver's negligence to be imputed to passenger

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).