Mitchell v. Resto’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc. (1990), Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen (1995)
2 district · 54 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 Koops v. Gregg · Wolf v. Sulik · Durso v. A. D. Cozzolino, Inc. · Leitzes v. F. L. Caulkins Auto Co. · Scalora v. Shaughnessy
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . it must be the affairs of the principal, and not solely the affairs of the CT Page 7254 agent, which are being furthered in order for the doctrine [of respondeat superior] to apply.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The underlying rationale of the modern doctrine of respondeat superior . . . is that "every man who prefers to manage his affairs through others, remains bound to so manage them that third persons are not injured by any breach of legal duty on the part of such others while they are engaged upon his business and within the scope of their authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“would ordinarily preclude the direction of a verdict for the defendant,”
3 later decisions 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.