Halverson v. Blosser’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably West v. Collins (1992), Priestly v. Skourup (1935)
2 district · 27 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 Bourne v. Whitman · Mockowik v. Kansas City · Birch v. Abercrombie · Smith v. Jordan · Hartnett v. Gryzmish
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, however, the machine was being used in some way not connected with the father’s business, and if the son was acting for himself, or for another, and not under the direction and control of the father, the latter cannot be held liable for negligence in its operation.” (p. -685.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stafford v. Noble““Liability of Blosser arises, if at all, on the relation of master and servant or principal and agent, and depends upon whether the son was engaged in the father’s business at the time of the accident, and was acting within the scope of his employment.” (p. 685.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Willett v. McCormick
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.