McCoy v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1983
7 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This case differs from those holding apparent agency can not be made the basis of a tort action. Here the apparent principal and the apparent agent were parties to a conspiracy to do an unlawful act. The tort was committed in prosecution of the conspiracy and all parties are liable. Brumley v. Chattanooga Speedway & Motordrome Co., 138 Tenn. 534 , 198 S.W. 775 [1917]; 15 C.J.S., Conspiracy, §§ 17, 18, p. 1028.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.