Crowell v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Snowhite v. State, Use of Tennant (1966), Williamson v. the Old Brogue, Inc. (1986)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Ritchie v. Waller · Parker v. Wilson · Barmore v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Co. · 107 Ohio St. 501 - Elliott v. Hardins · Mobile County v. White
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have repeatedly held that where the relationship of master and servant has been established the burden is on the master to prove that the servant was not acting within the scope of his employment when he committed the act complained of ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where it is doubtful whether a servant in injuring a third person was acting within the scope of his authority, the doubt will be resolved against the master....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Incompetence, recklessness, and accident are so universally the sequel of drinking that an owner of an automobile is put on notice of what is likely to occur if he does not take active steps to prevent any one addicted to drinking from driving it. If he fails in the performance of this duty, he should suffer the consequences of his neglect.”
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.