Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2008
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We may say in the beginning that under this state of facts W. J. Watson in the eye of the law became the servant for the time being of H. O. Watson, and H. O. Watson became liable to him as a master to a servant. “There was no evidence that W. J. Watson was directed by H. O. Watson as to what position he should take or how he should proceed to perform the service requested of him in helping to get the car started.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldie v. Dillon
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.