Castle v. Thisted’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2011
12 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 Meinecke v. Intermountain Transportation Co. · McIntyre v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co. · Lesage v. Largey Lumber Co. · Nissen v. Johnson · Clawson v. Schroeder
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The essence of the doctrine of respondeat superior is that of agency. The relation of parent and child, or husband and wife, or other family connection, unaccompanied by the contractual relation of employer and employee, is not sufficient to create responsibility on the part of the one for the act or omission of the other.’ ” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Babcock
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.