Hardeman v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Globe Indemnity Co. v. Victill Corp. (1969), Anderson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. (1917)
5 federal appellate · 59 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 Morier v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. · Richmond & Danville Railroad v. Farmer · Bowler v. O'Connell · Railway Co. v. Bolling · McCann v. Tillinghast
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe act (of the servant) must he, not only within the scope, of his employment, hut also committed in the accomplishment of objects within the line of his duties, or in and- about the business or duties assigned to him by his employer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.