Valley v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1968 · most notably Blanchard v. Ogima (1968), May v. Yellow Cab Co. (1927)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Williams v. Pullman Palace Car Co. · Godchaux v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. · Graham v. St. Charles Street Railroad · Nash v. Longville Lumber Co. · McDermott v. American Brewing 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule, as laid down in all these cases, is that, for the master to be liable, the injury, must have been caused by some act expressly or by reasonable implication within the scope of the agent’s employment.””
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.