Jacobson v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the doctrine requires that a person to be held liable is the person with control of the vehicle or the “head of the family”
• holding the doctrine requires that a person to be held liable is the person with control of the vehicle or the \head of the family\
• stating that the doctrine can apply where the negligent driver is the spouse of the family head
• stating that the doctrine can apply where the negligent driver is the spouse of the family head
• noting that the “doctrine does not rest on a classical theory of agency” but rather serves “a practical purpose” of “provid[ing] reparation for an injured party from the closest financially responsible party to the wrongdoing minor”
• stating doctrine is based imperfectly on agency principles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).