Riley v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2008
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Ritchie v. Waller · Moon v. Matthews · Steffen v. McNaughton · Hartley v. Miller · Patterson v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of the liability of the master for his servant’s acts is whether the latter was at the time acting within the scope of his employment. The phrase ‘in the course or scope of his employment or authority’ when used relative to the acts of a servant, means while engaged in the service of his master, or while about his master’s business.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nevins v. Roach · Gray v. Sawatzki“acts in any sense warranted by the express or implied authority conferred upon him, considering the nature of the services required,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eterna v. Dodge
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.