Sweet v. Trahan’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 136 So. 2d 852 - O'BRIEN v. Traders and General Insurance Company · 148 So. 2d 822 - Wills v. Correge · 124 So. 2d 634 - Bordelon v. Great American Indemnity Company · Cado v. Many · 6 So. 2d 179 - McAllister v. Jackson 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Masters and employers are answerable for the damage occasioned by their servants and overseers, in the exercise of the functions in which they are employed."”
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.