Butt v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1996
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Vonderhorst Brewing Co. v. Amrhine · Symington v. Sipes · Jordan Stabler Co. v. Tankersly · Salowitch v. Kres · State Ex Rel. Debelius v. C. J. Benson & Co.
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.
““ ‘ “ * * * there is a reasonable presumption that the servant was acting in the scope of his employment and upon the business of his master, and that the burden of overcoming this presumption is upon the master by showing that the servant was engaged in business other than his employer’s.” ’ Jordan Stabler Co. v. Tankersly, 146 Md. 454 , 126 A. 65 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kas v. Gilkerson““ ‘It is equally well established that this presumption is a rebuttable one, and may be rebutted by the uncontra dieted testimony offered on behalf of either the defendant or the plaintiff, or both, and when so rebutted the case ought not to go to the jury’ * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kas v. Gilkerson
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.