King v. McGuff’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Mobil Oil Corp. v. Ellender (1998), Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, Inc. (1967)
6 federal appellate · 111 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 Fort Worth Elevators Co. v. Russell · Commonwealth v. Davis · Morton Salt Co. v. Wells · Chronister Lumber Co. v. Williams · Caples v. Walker
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punitive damages can properly be awarded against a master or other principal because of an act by an agent if, but only if, (a) the principal authorized the doing and the manner of the act, or (b) the agent was unfit and the principal was reckless in employing him, or (c) the agent was employed in a managerial capacity and was acting in the scope of employment, or (d) the employer or a manager of the employer ratified or approved the act.”
19 later decisions 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.