Hardeman v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 1971 · most notably United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Millonas (1921), National Park Bank v. L. & N. R. R. (1917)
44 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 Hardeman v. Williams · Leach, Harrison & Forwood v. Bush · Henry v. Carlton · Hardeman v. Williams
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principal is responsible for the acts of his agent done within the scope of his employment, and in the accomplishment of objects within the line of his duties.””
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.