Pelletier v. Bilbiles’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
14 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc. (1990), Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen (1995)
14 district · 66 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 Petrizzo v. Commercial Contractors Corporation · Son v. Hartford Ice Cream Co. · Lurier v. Danbury Bus Corporation · Donch v. Kardos · Turner v. American District Telegraph & Messenger 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] master is liable for the wilful torts of his servant * committed within the scope of the servant's employment and in furtherance of his master's business.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an extremely forceful, although misguided, method of discouraging patrons of the [store], including the plaintiff, from causing disturbances on the premises.”
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.